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About me - Michelle Ann Newton

Entertainment is my life-long lifestyle. Writing is my deepest expression. Music is the air I breathe.

I'm an ambitious writer/producer, with more than fifteen years industry experience, from music to film.

I started my own independent label, Dynamo Records

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Society & Lifestyle > Society & Lifestyle (Other) The greatest comeback story: 8 of 138

"And I'm Still Standing." That's the title of the autobiographical book I've been attempting to write, for more than ten years, and counting. Why? Truth is, it hurts, just thinking about my past. Life certainly is what you make of it. But what about the things that "make up" your life? Without putting too much attention on d...
Parenting & Pregnancy > Adoption Is giving up a child for adoption giving or selfish?: 1 of 14

I am an adoptee, twice over. Yes. You read it correctly. I was not once, but TWICE adopted, prior to the age of nine. I have three legal names, and associated birth certificates, the first of which is my given name at birth, not yet identified. The most frequently asked question is, "How did that happen?" My birth mother, wh...
Politics, News & Issues > Police & Prisons Are the police violating the law when tasering an unarmed citizen?: 2 of 22

Bad boys, bad boys...what you gonna do? What you gonna do when they come for you? The long-standing theme-song for the television series, COPS, dramatizes much more than just a reality TV show. Most law-abiding citizens in America don't perceive the threat of violence or attack by police, unless or until it happens to them. ...
Society & Lifestyle > African-American Issues Reducing the homicides among young African-American men: 1 of 11

I'm not biting that baited hook of 'gangsta mentality' being the underlying motive for the growing number of homicides perpetrated by America's men of color. Why? Because black men are killing record numbers of their own black people. In observance of World Aids Day today, the China Daily newspaper reported their hiv/aids ca...
Society & Lifestyle > Racism Reverse racism: The other face (of discrimination): 3 of 27

Reverse racism is not an oxymoron. It is an ironical term that reflects how the roles of the "white man's" racist discrimination upon generations of black's as a people, who have fought and died to overcome multitudes of oppression, race-based slavery, white-on-black mob lynchings, governmental separatism, and decades of pre...
Society & Lifestyle > Society & Lifestyle (Other) Rape: The most misunderstood crime: 2 of 16

How is rape the most misunderstood crime? As a survivor, the simplest answer I can give for the wide-spread misunderstanding of rape, is obstinate perceptions, such as believing in false precepts like, "being in the wrong place at the wrong time" or "looking for trouble." Centuries of criminal case studies and hundreds upon ...
Entertainment > TV News & Commentary Dateline's To Catch a Predator: Helpful service or illegal entrapment?: 1 of 7

Not only is this sting operation iillegal, but it an outlandish disregard of the law. Before I voice my humble opinion here, let me first clarify something for the record. I have had more personal experience with this subject than I care to admit. I was a victim of four individual, brutal rapes, perpetrated by four different...
Relationships & Family > Cheating Spouses & Affairs Coping with an affair: 5 of 32

Coping with an affair requires answers, or perhaps, a particular answer, "why?" Whether you decide to stay or leave, sooner or later, you will have to cope with an affair. But contention is an ambiguous endeavor. An old saying claims, "What you don't know, can't hurt you." But does this catch phrase ring true with affairs of...
Entertainment > Music Genres, Trends & Scenes The Hip Hop revolution in music and culture: 2 of 11

Music is the air I breathe. For more than two decades, I have been a writer of both lyric and song, lived and loved both producing and performing R&B and Hip-Hop music. My life's work is, entertainment. The Hip-Hop revolution first started when I was a B-Girl doing the electric boogie in the early 80's listening to artist's ...
Politics, News & Issues > US Leaders Oprah ogles Obama: Stars use their media power to back presidential candidates: 2 of 10

In the words of the awkward middle-daughter, Jan Brady, from the Brady Bunch, I say, Oprah...Oprah...Oprah! Wasn't it Oprah Winfrey, back in January of 2007, who neglected and excluded every (less-fortunate and well-deserving) American seventh and eighth grade child, in order to honor Nelson Mandela of South Africa with a la...