::THE SLICE REPORT WITH MONA AUSTIN

buzzz worthy. . . In " My Other Mother" , Candace " Candy" Meyers (Essence Atkins) is a successful anchor on a top-rated national magazine show.  Fiercely independent and committed to her job, Candy doesn't make many friends with her demanding, gruff nature.  In fact, her only true friend might be her long-time manager Lewis ( Kendrick Cross ).  Candy discovers that an anonymous fan she's had for years has passed way - and he was her biological father Freddy Nelson!  Content with the love and support of her adoptive family, Candy has never been curious about her biological parents.  That all changes when she travels back for her father's funeral, meets the Nelson family - including biological uncle Abner (GregAlan Williams), Freddy's wife Delores (Angie Stone) and her two step-brothers - and discovers that her reclusive, angry and stubborn birth mother, Mary Jo (Lynn Whitfield) is going to be a challenge.  The journey these two surprisingly sim...

buzzz worthy. . . By Mona Austin Peel back all of Jasmine Guy's layers and at her core you will find an artiste.  During our interview, I deciphered Guy meant it when she stated, "I am art"  on the spoken word recording of “My Language” (from the album “Medicine” by the Black Academy of Arts and Letters).   She has not begun to get the credit she deserves for contributions in music, dance, and theater. This Women's History Month we salute Ms. Guy for evolving an eclectic collage  of work into a legacy of which we can all be proud. Guy is most "unsung" as a dancer.  Dancing, which she continues to teach, was her first love.  Her career as a professional dancer started when she prodigiously arabesqued her way into the renowned Alvin Ailey Dance Theater at 15.    At forty something, the divorcee and mother of 12-year-old Imani was still doing cart wheels and splits as Thelma Kelly in the Broadway production of “C...