When I saw Tank and the Bangas headline at the Apollo Theater, I saw a woman like myself—Black, voluptuous, creative—commanding center stage with her nine-piece band.
Author: Emerald Carter
Emerald Carter is an artist from Brooklyn, NY. She is an adjunct lecturer at the Queens Educational Opportunity Center and Lead Sunday School teacher at Christ Church, United Methodist. She has performed original poetry at the Queens Museum and her non-fiction has appeared in Push/Pull and Whet Lit. She earned her sociology degree from Tufts University and her Masters in Divinity from Union Theological Seminary; she now resides in Hollis, Queens.