Stephane Dunn, author of “Baad Bitches” and Sassy Supermamas: Black Power Action Films, remembers Michael at NewBlackMan.

I moved beyond posters on the walls and accepted that he was a star flung too far for me to marry — though I hung on to the prayer that at least we’d meet. He was still my Michael and I stood applauding telling him to go on with his bad self as he moon-walked onto MTV and further into pop performance history.