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Miami Herald
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Miami Herald
Son of R&B singers graduates from HBCU
K.J. Lattimore, son of R&B stars Kenny Lattimore and Chanté Moore, is now a proud college graduate. On May 4, he earned his Bachelor's degree in Business from Lincoln University of Pennsylvania, the nation's first degree-granting HBCU. A Family Overflowing with Pride Kenny Lattimore shared this message on Facebook: "He did it! From a 17-year-old KJ visiting Lincoln's campus to a 22-year-old walking away ready to take on the world… Thank you for pouring into him in your own special way." Chanté Moore also posted a powerful tribute to her son: "I can't stop crying tears of joy… ? I'm so proud of YOU KJ!!! You did it baby! Mommy is elated and SO EXCITED about your NEXT accomplishment!!! You ARE ALREADY AMAZING… INCREDIBLE… and EXCEPTIONAL!!! I exhale… and smile from ear to ear!" Their son, K.J., also shared his thoughts about his HBCU graduation on Instagram: "In this life you must evolve… I am now a graduate from The First HBCU ?. There is still much more evolution to come. When they doubted and thought I might fall, I remain blessed and thank God through it all… on May 4th, as one journey ended, my newest journey began." An HBCU Legacy of Excellence Lincoln University, founded in 1854, has produced alumni like Thurgood Marshall and Langston Hughes. K.J. now joins that legacy. His father, Kenny Lattimore, is known for hits like "For You", "Never Too Busy", and "Love Me Back." He has released over 10 studio albums and remains a top performer. His mother, Chanté Moore, is a Grammy-nominated singer with hits like "Chanté's Got a Man", "Love's Taken Over", and "Straight Up." Her voice helped shape 1990s R&B. Celebration in D.C. The Lattimore family gathered at Kata restaurant in Washington, D.C. to celebrate. The night was filled with love, joy, and pride. 'To everyone who came out to celebrate him last night at Kata restaurant in DC-we love and appreciate each of you. Thank you for pouring into him in your own special way,' Kenny Lattimore posted. Congratulations to K.J. Lattimore - the future is bright, and this is just the beginning. The post Son of R&B singers graduates from HBCU appeared first on HBCU Gameday. Copyright HBCU Gameday 2012-2025
The Guardian
25-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
On the Clock by Claire Baglin review – a fast food novel for a refined palette
In recent novels set in restaurants, the breakneck speed of the action hides darker elements at work. Stéphane Larue's The Dishwasher follows a restaurant worker whose life threatens to unravel amid his gambling addiction; in Merritt Tierce's Love Me Back, the world of waitressing is a front for Texas's grimy underbelly. Beneath the surface frenzy of French writer Claire Baglin's debut novel, On the Clock (translated by Jordan Stump), there is a similar stream of existential angst, its protagonist 'mired in the heart of pointlessness'. Baglin's focus is intergenerational exploitation in the (French) workplace. She gives an impressionistic portrait of a young woman employed at a burger joint in brisk but unsparing prose, alternating between her unnamed narrator's customer-facing drudgery – unfriendly co-workers, pestering managers, habitual injuries – and her childhood memories, particularly of her hot-tempered father, Jérôme, who toiled in a factory for 20 years. Structured around the eatery's different stations, the novel starts 'Out Front', stops by 'Deep Fat' and winds up at the 'Drive-Thru', inducting the reader into the inner workings of each. But around that simple scaffolding, Baglin's novel is deliberately disorienting. Passages detailing how to 'mash the trash' segue into the narrator's recollections of her hoarder father filling his front room with stuff and 'immersed in the pile of junk' at a dumpster. It can all get a bit confusing. Although mostly narrated in the first person, Baglin also makes discombobulating leaps into the mind of Jérôme. Events and timelines are hazy, as if told from a fragmented child's viewpoint ('It might be afternoon, another year'). Simmering tensions stay inexplicit, her parents' fraught conversations a 'secret murmur'. We are left to merely guess at her father's fraying mental health and financial woes, while the political backdrop to his troubles is glimpsed only in a childhood game referring to the recession and the neighbour's downstairs parrot squawking 'Sarkozy sucks' on demand. The cutthroat culinary environment of the narrator's present day is described in Kafkaesque terms (a machine buzzes 'like a giant insect') and as a full-blown war zone with 'shrapnel' flying. Uniformed anonymity gives cover, the narrator becoming willing to trample on others, 'to take their place' in the pecking order. Baglin expertly captures the giddiness of the working day, her writing percussive: 'Snap, snap, you get that?' 'Thanks, medium fries! … shake shake shake.' On the Clock has a rhythm that takes getting used to and I did find Baglin's digressions strayed too much from the propulsive kitchen-set story. But the novel is underscored by a lacerating humour, even in its bleakest passages, and offers a refreshingly uncompromising study of working-class life, with its calluses, oil burns and hypocrisies laid bare. The result is a terse, bracing whirlwind of a book. On the Clock by Claire Baglin (translated by Jordan Stump) is published by Daunt (£9.99). To support the Guardian and Observer order your copy at Delivery charges may apply
