The Bold and the Beautiful

The Original "Bold and the Beautiful"

Pat Evans, Grace Jones and Judith Jamison. These women made their freshly shaved

heads their trademarks and didn't give a care who liked it or not! As a teen

I couldn't help but admire Super Model Pat Evans when I first saw her on the cover of my brother's

record albums and in the pages of earlier copies of Essence magazine.

It takes a special woman to sport the bald look...heck it takes a special woman just to wear her natural hair period! For years we've been wearing everyone else's hair but our own and it's awe inspiring when I see women who say forget the standards of beauty that are imposed upon them and proclaim that they are going to be themselves.

Confidence, self-definition and how you see yourself as a woman and as an individual and of course a bold personality and a style of your own are the characteristics that these lovely ladies possess who pull off this look. As an admirer of all women, confidence is the number one accessory that no woman should ever leave home without and these women simply exude confidence and rock!

From Brazilian singer Adyel Silva to Artist Dawn Okoro, these women and others

like them are the  personification of what it means to be 'The Bold and the Beautiful!"

"A Moment In Afro Her-story: Judith Jamison"

Dancer, choreographer and philanthropist-Judith Jamison

Judith Anna Jamison (born May 10, 1943 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American dancer and choreographer, best known as the artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.

Jamison began studying dance at age 10. She graduated from Germantown High School in 1961, and attended Fisk University at the age of 15 and the Philadelphia Dance Academy. In 1964, Agnes de Mille invited Jamison to dance in her ballet "The Four Marys" at the American Ballet Theatre.

Jamison moved to New York City in 1965 and joined the Alvin Ailey company. She soon became a principal dancer for Ailey and remained with the company until 1980. Among her most notable roles were "The Prodigal Prince" (1967), "Masekela Language" (1969), and especially "Cry" (1971), a 15-minute solo piece.

Jamison left the Alvin Ailey company to star in the Broadway musical Sophisticated Ladies, also based on Duke Ellington's music. During the 1980s, she began choreographing her own works. When Alvin Ailey died in 1989, Jamison was named artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. She has choreographed many works for the company since then.

Jamison's numerous awards include Kennedy Center Honors (1999) and the National Medal of Arts (2001). She won a prime time Emmy Award and an American Choreography Award for Outstanding Choreography for the PBS "Great Performances: Dance In America" special, "A Hymn for Alvin Ailey." She wrote an autobiography, "Dancing Spirit", published in 1993.