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I love this blog!!!  : blackfolksmakingcomics … for Black history month I will celebrate  their site and the art by Jackie Ormes (1911 - 1985) Here is their write up on Jackie Ormes from 1 of my hometowns: Pittsburgh!! -Lady Miss Kier

To say Mrs. Ormes is an inspirational creator and ahead of her time is an understatement.

Born Zelda Jackson, she was a journalist who was hired as a proofreader of the Pittsburgh Courier, one of the first major and most influential Black newspapers in the country. While at the Courier, Ormes created Torchy Brown in Dixie to Harlem, a story about a teenage singer from Mississippi who realizes her dream to perform at the legendary Cotton Club in Harlem, New York.  

After moving to Chicago in 1942, Mrs. Ormes wrote for another influential Black newspaper, the Chicago Defender (ironically a sibling publication to the Pittsburgh Courier since 2003) where she contributed feature stories, a social column, and after the end of the second World War, a one-panel comic strip called Candy (not to be confused with Alvin Hollingsworth’s comic strip Kandy), which was the misadventures of a sharp-witted housemaid who didn’t conform to the stereotypical Mammy archetype of the era but rather shapely, attractive, and realistic, a rarity in any medium.

Mrs. Ormes returned to the Courier in 1947 and created a new one-panel strip that lasted 11 years. Patty-Jo ‘n’ Ginger chronicled the lives of a pair of sisters, a short, opinionated, sharp-tongue little girl named Patty-Jo and her older, statuesque sister Ginger. Patty-Jo was also the inspiration of a popular doll produced by Terri Lee Dolls and noted for its realistic Black American features as opposed to the Topsy/Mammy dolls of the day. Only produced for two years, the Patty-Jo dolls are collectors items. 

1950 brought the reintroduction of Mrs. Ormes’ Torchy Brown, who was no longer a teenage performer but now an independent woman looking for love and a place in this world while taking on issues of the day, particularly civil rights, in a new full-color title, Torchy Brown in Heartbeats. In 1957, Mrs. Ormes retired from comics but continued to create fine art and living a busy social life throughout the Chicago area. 

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Nobody’s business  sung by Billie. She is one of the most down to earth, loving, sweethearts of the house scene. She is absolutly beautiful inside and outside.-Lady Miss Kier  

x-press 2 -music x-press!!! lifted by madonna and was played in every single rave when it was released. still a classic. still sounds like E coming on- Lady miss Kier …www.ladykier.com

Junie Morrison- Super Spirit..sampled by Madlib. check out his radio station and if you don’t know he co-wrote some of my favorite P-funk songs besides their biggest hits One Nation Under a Groove,  ”(Not Just) Knee Deep" and the gold-selling Parliament albums Motor Booty Affair, and Gloryhallastoopid. Morrison also played on and produced some P-Funk material under the pseudonym J.S. Theracon. more info on  his latest masterpieces: http://www.juniemorrison.com

If it don’t fit don’t force it - P-funk ( from the Chocolate city album) 

I got there early for a job in time square from the back of the village voice for a bartender position -1985. when I got there I was told by the newspaper stand guy outside that there had been a murder there the week before and that they just rolled…

I got there early for a job in time square from the back of the village voice for a bartender position -1985. when I got there I was told by the newspaper stand guy outside that there had been a murder there the week before and that they just rolled new linoleum over the blood. I laughed because i didn’t believe him …but sure enough..i went inside and there was new linoleum and a new paint job. I spun around on my glitter platform shoe so quick and high-tailed it out of there. As dirty and corrupt as streetlife was back in the 80’s…It gave me hundreds of stories, nearly every block of nyc has a story attached to it in my mind.-Lady miss Kier 

I don’t usually post airbrushed photos of me..but i reposted this one, have no idea who went to town on the airbrush but i like the photo because it reminds me of that night , my last gig in London ..last spring. never got paid for deejaying a…

I don’t usually post airbrushed photos of me..but i reposted this one, have no idea who went to town on the airbrush but i like the photo because it reminds me of that night , my last gig in London ..last spring. never got paid for deejaying and singing unbeknownst by the club owners but worth every moment as the other entertainers were swimmingly swell and the packed house attracted a very fun crowd.  -lady miss kier

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Lady Miss Kier Kerby 2012

Below I mentioned that at the  CROWN HEIGHTS AFFAIR show they also played “Unlimited Touch’s  ” “I hear music in the streets ” which is the first song I’m playing in this lil’ DJ clip for a fundraiser in baltimore 2 years ago. A lot  of early 70’s disco bands from Brooklyn were playing in each other’s bands…so CROWN HEIGHTS AFFAIR were’nt covering the bands BT EXPRESS, UNLIMITED TOUCH, SKYY- they were the same players - much like P-funk  and Funkadelic. I’ll upload footage and photos of the show asap - Lady Miss Kier …www.ladykier.com

video; shot and edited by DAN BELL

Anyone who’s heard me dj over the last decade has heard me play atleast one “Crown Heights Affair “song .Their show knocked me off my feet saturday at Brooklyn Academy of music.it was a packed sellout and they delivered. they sang all the brooklyn hits from crown heights affair ,unlimited touch, and bt express . they sounded better than ever. blew me away. PROMOTORS….book this act. they are no joke. they sound like they just finished a world tour. big up Darrell McNeil @ BAM for putting them on. Legends All! They performed ” “searching to find the one”, “dancin”, “I hear music in the streets”, for starters and they merged all the brooklyn hits!! -Lady Miss Kier…www.ladykier.com