Beyoncé's mother Tina Knowles has sold her Texas mansion for $2,962,500. While some art collections feel like a mausoleum, Lawson’s comesalive as she stops before various pieces, sharing anecdotes andart-history lessons.Lawson long believed she’d never leave Galveston, but when she was 14, afemale friend took her to Houston to see the Alvin Ailey dance company.“I saw those dancers and all those well-dressed black folks,” shesays. “With the coronavirus and everything going on, people had to actually decide, ‘Am I going to put my life on the line and go out there ... to get my vote out?’ or, ‘Will my ballot actually count?’ And it was really just horrible to see people risk their lives.”“Our prayer for this letter is that hopefully it’s touching somebody’s heart ... and we shine enough light on it,” Knowles-Lawson said. Our Core programs include Tina’s Angels, a yearlong mentorship program for teenage girls; and Richard’s Warriors is a mentorship program for teenage boys. LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - FEBRUARY 20: Tina Knowles attend the Eddie Murphy X ARTUS Gallery Exhibition Opening Night at East Angel Gallery on February 20, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. And that’s something that I did not have, the first five or six years of my journey.”“Steps in the right direction are painful reminders that there has still been no justice for Breonna Taylor,” Beyoncé wrote to the Kentucky attorney general.Gemma Arterton and Gugu Mbatha-Raw star in “Summerland,” a British World War II drama with a fresh spin.Get Carolina A. Miranda's weekly newsletter for what's happening, plus openings, critics' picks and more.Tamar Braxton lets loose on WeTV executives, blaming them for her recent suicide attempt and years of declining mental health.
With a pandemic disproportionately affecting communities of color and the masses rising up against police brutality toward Black people, Tina Knowles-Lawson and Mothers of the Movement, a group of Black mothers whose children have died while in police custody, joined forces with the Leadership Conference on Civil and […] “It wasprobably a reproduction, but it was so beautiful and it was in a frame.I discovered then how important [art] is for your home. In front of a painting by Kermit Oliver, shedelivers an impromptu trivia session on the Texan mixed-media artist:he’s the only American in history who designed scarves for Hermès, yethe nevertheless chose to work as a mail sorter at a Waco post office.“It kept him normal,” she says.Following her divorce in 2011, Knowles says, “one of the things that made me the most happy was reading art books,” like these on Radcliffe Bailey, Kermit Oliver, and Diego Rivera. And so we connect the dots for them. “So we can prevent polling place closures around the country and strict voter ID laws.”“We’ve known, in the Black community, what’s going on, because it’s happening to us, and most people have a story about some type of either police brutality or gun violence,” Knowles-Lawson said. The first trip Lawson took with the“angels,” she says, was to see a performance by the Alvin AileyAmerican Dance Theater.
... when she showed up to the Wearable Art Gala in Los Angeles, dripping in a … ... People have to examine their hearts and their souls and really take a good look in the mirror.”Assemblyman Phil Ting said there is support for providing up to $600 weekly to jobless CaliforniansThursday’s missive also calls on its recipients to “take action and do their part to undo this country’s systemic racism” — a reality that Knowles-Lawson says non-Black communities can no longer ignore after the recent killings of Arbery, Taylor, George Floyd and others.Knowles-Lawson added: “A lot of people, because Black people have been so unheard for so long, they really believe that voting does not make a difference. It turns outthat even (and perhaps especially) if you’re the biggest pop star in theworld, when your mother needs an outfit, she needs an outfit.As our tour comes to a close, I take one last look around.