![]() And I’m going to argue that we change lives precisely because we force open that too-small box that most human beings think they live in. We’re the bran muffin of journalism.īut you know what? We change lives. We’re seen as being global, fair, insightful, and perhaps a bit too earnest. If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.” My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. ![]() ![]() “Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. Turner was simply the best.Ībout a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”: ![]() Angela Bassett simply asked:“How do we say farewell to a woman who owned her pain and trauma and used it as a means to help change the world?” When it came to overcoming adversity, Ms. In all honesty, the entire industry mimics her excellence.Yet the most stunning tribute to her life came from the woman who portrayed her so profoundly in the 1993 film about Ms. Turner’s influence on entertainers such as Beyoncé, or feel her essence in Mary J. And her 1988 concert before 180,000 people in Rio de Janeiro set a record for audience attendance.It’s hard not to see Ms. Turner was the recipient of 12 Grammy Awards, including three in 1985 for the song “What’s Love Got To Do With It.” She was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame both as a solo artist and as a duo with Mr. Onomatology suggests that Mary means “beloved,” and also “bitterness.”Ms. Her persona burst onto the scene passionately with “Proud Mary,” which in her hands became a soul-stirring personal commentary chronicling servitude to stardom. Mary was a fitting name that captured the duality of Ms. It was a reminder of her Tennessee upbringing, the lineage of sharecropping, and her domestic servitude.“Tina Turner” was an expression of emancipation. Her suggestion in the King interview that she experienced success rivaling the Rolling Stones spoke to a country and a culture that often waited too late to appreciate Black women in pop.“Anna Mae Bullock,” as she was born, was a callback – to the harsh realities of systemic racism and spousal abuse. Turner earned her freedom, both as an entertainer and lover. King later asked about her ex-husband, musician Ike Turner, she offered a one-word response: “Who?”Ms. “Europe has been very supportive of my music.”When Mr. Turner explained her exodus from America – and alluded to another important separation.“I left America because my success was in another country and my boyfriend was in another country,” she said. She also wore her smile in a way that brought life to Maya Angelou’s words in the poem “Phenomenal Woman” – “the curl of my lips.”That sensuous smirk stood out notably in a 1997 interview with TV host Larry King, which made the rounds after Ms. Tina Turner, the “Queen of Rock ’n’ Roll,” wore many things well – flashy dresses and sensationally self-made wigs, among other fashionable items.
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