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$\"TheKekaCollection\"$ <\/a>The Keka Collection<\/a><\/strong><\/em>
\n The Best of Keka\u2019s Blog on Open Salon<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Summary:<\/p>\n

Cynthia Dagnal-Myron is an award-winning former reporter for both the \u201cChicago Sun Times\u201d and \u201cArizona Daily Star.\u201d She is also the first black woman to become a rock critic for a \u201cmajor metropolitan daily,\u201d and her articles have appeared in \u201cRolling Stone\u201d and \u201cCreem\u201d\u2013the latter under the tutelage of legendary rock critic Lester Bangs. For five wild years she traveled with, interviewed and reviewed 70\u2019s and 80\u2019s legends like Kiss, Queen, the Who, Aerosmith, Led Zeppelin, Traffic Rod Stewart, Cheap Trick, Peter Frampton, Todd Rundgren and Brian Eno. She also interviewed stars like John Travolta, Kirk Douglas, Richard Pryor and the then unknown cast of \u201cStar Wars\u2013and dated Arnold Schwarzenegger. Once. And then one day\u2026she walked away from all of it. And never looked back.<\/p>\n

After moving to the Southwest in the early 80\u2019s, she became a public relations liaison for The Hopi Tribe, and moved to their reservation where she eventually returned to her first career, teaching. Three years later, she married a Hopi artist and became part of his proud\u2014and very large\u2014family. She continued to publish regularly in Working Mother and elsewhere, but only when spirit moved. With a daughter to raise, children to teach and the wide turquoise skies of the Hopi reservation to gaze upon, her spirit was otherwise occupied most of the time.<\/p>\n

Over 20 years later, left free to \u201cjust be,\u201d having retired early to do precisely that, she started a blog on Open Salon to take stock of what had gone before and ponder what might come next. She wrote of the triumphs and challenges of midlife, celebrating family, friends and the Southwestern way of life she\u2019d grown to love. But she gradually began to chronicle and comment upon the times she lived in\u2013sometimes with deep affection, sometimes with righteous indignation. Salon editors took note, placing her blog posts on the covers of Open Salon and Salon itself.<\/p>\n

A British magazine reprinted one of her most popular posts about her \u201crock and roll summers\u201d in London. A controversial post about the Trayvon Martin shooting prompted the producers of the TV and radio show Democracy Now, to invite her discuss her own experiences \u201cwalking while black\u201d and to celebrate her 5th grade teacher and beloved role model, Mamie Till Mobley, the mother of Emmett Till, the 16-year-old boy whose lynching was one of the watershed events leading to the Civil Rights Movement. Soon an old Sun Times colleague, Roger Ebert, discovered that the young woman with the infectious laugh with whom he\u2019d sat \u201cdesk-to-desk\u201d for five years was doing some of the best writing of her life. Supportive as ever, he began to Tweet and Facebook her articles regularly. And the \u201chits\u201d catapulted her to the top of the Open Salon popularity charts each time. Week after week, readers urged her to \u201c\u2026make a book out of all this!\u201d This\u2026is their book. And the story of her life.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"