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Two weeks until Salute.<\/strong> If you\u2019ve been paying any attention to me, you already have your calendars marked for 6 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 1, at America\u2019s Center for the St. Louis American Foundation\u2019s 38th Annual Salute to Excellence in Education Scholarship and Awards Gala. And you probably are wondering how my 30-day challenge is working for \u201cOperation Zip This Gown!\u201d I will have y\u2019all know that it\u2019s only been two weeks, and I\u2019m already seeing results. It\u2019s like night\u2026and later that same night. Thanks to everybody for keeping me accountable. I can\u2019t wait to be amongst the folks that slay the game as we turn America\u2019s Center into an epicenter of Black excellence! But for real, I know it seems subjective when I say it, but the Education Salute is one of those \u201cBlack bucket list\u201d items that you have to experience at least once in your lifetime. It\u2019s a bold statement, and I will stand on it. I\u2019m talking ESSENCE Festival, the NAACP Image Awards, American Black Film Festival and a visit to the National Museum of African American History and Culture. You can ask anybody if you don\u2019t believe me. Or you can come see for yourself! Visit www.stlamerican.com<\/a> or call 314.533.8000 for tickets or more information.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tabitha Davis and Alecisa Slater felt the vibe of Strawberry Bounce recently at Tsch\u00fcss
\n Credit:<\/span> Photos by Taylor Marrie | St. Louis American<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

An urban drama at the Alamo.<\/strong> I got my whole entire life when I put on my Salute dress from last year and moseyed to the Foundry region to catch the world premiere and red carpet experience for Brenda Hampton\u2019s<\/strong> and her Black Girl Powerhouse Productions original film, \u201cWho Ya Wit? 2.\u201d We had the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema on lock! It was super cute. Y\u2019all, after rubbing elbows with some of my favorites and sitting down to watch a movie made by people from St. Louis, filmed in St. Louis, set in St. Louis and starring some folks from St. Louis had me feeling all tingly. I was like, \u201cThe girls might not have to move to Atlanta, or her dusty cousin Houston, to further their entertainment careers after all!\u201d Speaking of careers, KiKi The First Lady<\/strong> is in her vixen era as a radio personality and blacktress \u2014 and I\u2019m not the least bit mad. I wish I could say the same for how Desa Rae<\/strong> folded for Roc<\/strong> again in the film. I know we need the drama for the sake of the movie, but girl. If you said to yourself that you know you are getting played, it\u2019s time to change the game. Yes, I know it\u2019s a movie! If I had to hear my big granny holler at Victor Newman<\/strong> and Mrs. Chancellor<\/strong> every weekday as she watched \u201cYoung and The Restless\u201d like they could hear her through that black-and-white TV, y\u2019all can put up with me doing the same thing for \u201cWho Ya Wit? 2\u201d this one time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Countess Edwards, Demetrius Roberts, and Brenda Hampton on the red carpet at the premiere for \u201cWho Ya Wit? 2\u201d at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema on Saturday
\n Credit:<\/span> Photos by Taylor Marrie | St. Louis American<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

RIP to a music master.<\/strong> My heart broke in a million little pieces when I learned that D\u2019Angelo <\/strong>passed away on Tuesday. That hit me like a freight train. And he was only 51. For those of y\u2019all who didn\u2019t come up in his musical era, just understand that in R&B, there is BD (before D\u2019Angelo) and AD (after D\u2019Angelo). The genre was never the same once he sprinkled his \u201cBrown Sugar\u201d on it. And my love for him was deep. It was so serious that my college boyfriend still accuses me of derailing his career when I forced him to get \u201cD\u2019Angelo braids\u201d at the same time he was interviewing for internships. But seriously, it feels unreal to put RIP and D\u2019Angelo together in the same sentence. I want to send a special set of condolences to the son he shared with the late great Angie Stone. That poor child is probably going through it right now.\u00a0<\/p>\n