Tena | TheArtist ✨🌙

Pisces ♓️ | Creative Extraordinaire 👽 | 👩🏾‍🎨 Follow me on IG & Tiktok @ monsterglamfx

[Soulmate Twin Flame Love @TwinSoulslove]

You can meet thousands of people and none of them will touch you. And then one day, someone can come in and touch your soul and before you know it, your life has been changed forever.

[Tena | TheArtist ✨🌙 @TenaTheBeast_]

@PurdieeArt Amazing work!!! 😳🥰😍

[Tena | TheArtist ✨🌙 @TenaTheBeast_]

@rahsh33m Facts!! Lmaoooo!! 😭

[Tena | TheArtist ✨🌙 @TenaTheBeast_]

😩😩😩 Fact Lmaoooo 😭

[Mesh🇧🇧 @rahsh33m]

Not a drop of sleep would have been slept

[Tena | TheArtist ✨🌙 @TenaTheBeast_]

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[Soulmate Twin Flame Love @TwinSoulslove]

Our eyes met and our souls caught on fire.

[Soulmates~Twinflames @soulmatereading]

If two souls are meant to be together, destiny will bring them together to share their journey through life. #soulmate #soulmates #soulmatequote #soulmatequotes #soulmatelove #soulmateforever #soulmatejourney #soulmatepath #soulmatereading #soulmatereadings #soulmateconnection #soulmatecouple #soulmatetwinflame #mysoulmate

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

BALTIMORE: DRUID HILL PARK
POOL NO. 2

Built: 1921
Desegregated: 1955
Drained: 1956

Public pools were common in American cities before the 1950s and most were officially “whites only”. When the Supreme Court declared segregated access to public amenities (such as pools) to be unconstitutional, cities circumvented integration by simply removing the amenities for everybody. In short, rather than integrate public pools, many cities decided to demolish them altogether.

Subsequently, beginning in the 60s, there was an explosion in the popularity of backyard swimming pools in the suburbs which were, of course, mostly whites-only due to restrictive covenants and exclusionary zoning. In the name of racism and avoiding integration, American cities effectively eliminated a public good and privatised it for only those who could afford it.

[Missy Elliott @MissyElliott]

Fun fact I had to go to a gas station in Brooklyn NY to get air in this blow up suit & the suit blew up so big I couldn’t fit in the car so I had to walk back to set down the street in this outfit in BROOKLYN😳 dem ppl was riding pass like she must be high😩🤣😂

[Tena | TheArtist ✨🌙 @TenaTheBeast_]

I'm listening to Eu Sou"O Eu Sou"Musica 432 Hz Curar Dormir Relaxante with Musi! https://t.co/m00BMVXczK

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Self-taught, child prodigy piano player, Sugar Chile Robinson.

—Born on December 28, 1938, Sugar Chile Robinson as he was widely known proved to be a child prodigy emerging as a self-taught piano player at a year and half old.

The jazz pianist and singer played for President Truman in 1946 at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, becoming the first African-American to be invited to the presidential home at a mere age of seven.

He was one of the first African-American child stars to be a household name. While still a kid, he had a record, billboard chart, sports and a gig with the Count Basie Orchestra as well as movie appearances even when African-Americans were few on the big screen.

He began touring major theaters, setting box office records in Detroit and California. In 1949 he was given special permission to join the American Federation of Musicians and record his first releases on Capitol Records, “Numbers Boogie” and “Caldonia”, both reaching the Billboard R&B chart.

In 1950, he toured and appeared on television with Count Basie and in a short film ‘Sugar Chile’ Robinson, Billie Holiday, Count Basie and His Sextet. The following year, he toured the UK, appearing at the London Palladium.

However, by the 1950s, Robinson returned to school and his fame faded. He stopped recording in 1952.

Later he said: “I wanted to go to school… I wanted some school background in me and I asked my Dad if I could stop, and I went to school because I honestly wanted my college diploma.”

Having given up his musical career entirely, he focused on his academic studies earning a degree in history from Olivet College and one in psychology from the Detroit Institute of Technology. In the 1960s, he worked for WGPR-TV, and also helped set up small record labels in Detroit and opened a recording studio.

The Detroit, Michigan native’s legacy is enduring but his decision to drop music came at a great cost.

The blues singer in 2016 got invited to the White House by former president Barack Obama to be part of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner after 70 years.

On how tough life got, his small apartment shared with a niece had no beds and a piano. They had been sleeping on blow up beds for the past five years after a household fire destroyed his belongings.

In 2017, Music Maker Relief Foundation came to the star’s aid putting him on the monthly sustenance program, sending beds and a piano to his residence while resolving the eviction action he faced.

Questions abound bordering on royalties and if he made good money from his music or if he squandered the wealth he made? There’s also talk of how he failed to keep a balance rejecting music for so long yet the college degree he so craved for not securing him a better life. Whatever the outcome, Frank Isaac Robinson in 2016 was inducted into the Rhythm & Blues Music Hall of Fame.

Sugar Chile Robinson will be celebrating his 84th Birthday on December 28th 2022—

[Perfect Guidance 🧭 @PerfectGuide_]

Stay silent. Not everything needs to be said.

[2Fré😈 @2Frais1976]

☠️.. #StreetArt #graffiti

[Wealth Director @wealth_director]

Be addicted to real dopamine:

Exercise
Meditate
Eat healthy
Listen to music
Quiet your mind
Get a good sleep
Live in the moment
Focus on your passion
Make a difference in your life

[Inspirational Quotes @SeffSaid]

Be patient

[Mike Baggz @MikeBaggz]

I’ll say it again, empowerment starts with LAND ownership ✊🏿

[Wealth Director @wealth_director]

Mindset: Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

[Missy Elliott @MissyElliott]

Thank you @Fendi this Fendi Roma suit is 🔥👽👽👽 ooooooowee I had to throw a lil missy twist on it with @TastefullyNasty on the stones and EDTheArtist on the paint🔥🔥🔥 @essencefest