Queen Latifah

activist for women rights. This women is the Queen of Rap/Jazz, and her name is Queen Latifah. The simplest thing can make a person start to love music. For this black women it was the nickname she had been given as a child. Queen Latifah was born Dana Elaine Owens on March 18, 1970, in Newark, New Jersey. When she was 8 years old, a Muslim cousin gave her the nickname Latifah, meaning "delicate and sensitive" in Arabic. Latifah began singing in the choir of Shiloh Baptist Church in Bloomfield, New Jersey, and had her first public performance when she sang a version of "Home" as one of the two Dorothy’s in a production of The Wizard of Oz at St. Anne's parochial school. In her first year of high school,…

The outlook of not only the character but how the actors play the role are just as important because they understand who they need to be as acting. .Reading this has helped me understand why she is such an important character in the film, set it off and how she is strong even without though she was not feminine as an actor. Queen Latifah, “Her early raps are sometimes referred to as “feminist;” they discuss misogyny and rejection of negative female depictions(Sanchez, 65). The importance of a…

Word Count: 1519 I Can’t Let You Disrespect Me I’m A Queen, and All My Real Boss Chicks Know What I Mean “Every time I hear a brother call a girl a bitch or a hoe, trying to make a sister feel low, You know all of that gots to go.” -Queen Latifah, U.N.I.T.Y. Lyrics. Every time I turn on the radio in my car, I cannot hear a song without rappers calling a female out of their name and that has been an issue for quite some time now. My opening statement was a verse from actress/rapper Queen…

Several key events occurred during Queen Latifah's lifetime. Her life span started in the late 1960’s, following us to this present day. During this time period, the world has experienced some unforgettable historical events that have shaped most of the world we live in today. One of these historical events was the Cold War. The Cold War was an incredibly long war that lasted 45 years. It began on March 12, 1947 and ended on December 25, 1991. The Cold War according to The National WWII Museum…

She has used her platform and musical abilities to spread ideas of feminism and the importance of valuing women and treating them with respect. In her song u.n.i.t.y. Queen Latifah speaks out on the adverse treatment of women in the hip hop culture in terms of harassment and the many sexual slurs used to describe women. In the video, Queen Latifah brings up an important discussion on how women have welcomed and grown attached to the attention of men to the point of forgetting raps negative…

However, being inspired over the years by an outstanding female has changed my whole point of view about my dream. This outstanding woman is Queen Latifah. What many people don’t know about Queen is that other than being an actress, singer, and a rapper, she’s also an entrepreneur. She debuted her own clothing line called the Queen Collection on the Home Shopping Network (HSN) in August 2011. The only difference between what Queen did and what I want to do is that she ventured in the female part…

experiences of Queen Latifah has showed that true beauty comes from making good personal choices. Indeed, Firoozeh Dumas has also sent us the message across of her own personal story of overcoming tough times while making choices that shaped her identity. Queen Latifah has published her story “Who You Callin’ a Bitch?” where she speaks about her stand on personal choice and; on the other…

Supper Women After we watched the four videos from Queen Latifah, India Arie, Erykah Badu and Alicia Keys. And I went hope and watched it again, I had found out that; though American culture degrade African American women but still there are some powerful supper black women who raised up and still standing on their fit till today. Queen Latifah takes a stand in this song and encourages black women to respect themselves and not accept the abuse from men who try to put them down. Is inspiring to…

The Tale of Ophelia There was once a Kingdom in Denmark named Venlighed, meaning kindness. The kingdom was ruled by a fair King and Queen. One day, the King and Queen were blessed with a gift of a daughter, and they named her Ophelia. But something wasn’t quite right with Ophelia. She was born with a deathly illness, so the noble King and Queen asked for the most powerful fairy godmother in the Kingdom. “I do not have the power to cure the princess from her illness, but I can give her a gift to…

played. One of the obvious metaphors in this scene is the direct comparison between the pieces in the chess game and the players in the wire. The king is Avon and as D’Angelo says “The king stays the king”. No matter how much you do, no matter how many of the Kings enemies you kill or how much money you make for the organization you will never be king. The king does not do any work, he uses his pawns or soldiers and even the queen to do his dirty work. As you see in The Wire, Avon rarely…