SISTERLY LOVE: THE RISE OF THE BLACK GIRL CRUSH
**An excerpt from my recent Huffington Post article, “Sisterly Love: The Rise of the Black Girl Crush”. Writer, David Foster Wallace, once wrote that the lives of others are a writer’s dinner; they...
View ArticleVOGUE Italia x LADYPANTS…
As if by rite of passage, the Black model archive is filled with trials of hapharzard handling of one’s hair. Left in the hands of hairstylists deaf to the temperment of Black tresses, Black fashion...
View Articleblack girl crush series, part 1: ESTELLE
**An excerpt from my recent Huffington Post article, “Black Girl Crush Series, Part 1: ESTELLE”–the first in an awesome new series of interviews with Black female iconoclasts.** When I initially wrote...
View ArticleLADY OF SUMMER
As I write this, I can feel summer at my back. I can feel it blazing outside my window, the oppressive heat crackling on the concrete streets below, scorching the greenery, browning the skin, and...
View Articleblack girl crush series, part 3: VASHTIE KOLA
**An excerpt from the third installment of my Huffington Post series, “The Black Girl Crush Series”–an awesome new index of interviews with Black female iconoclasts.** To be sure, the allure of the...
View Articleon the subject of SOLANGE
I am very pleased to offer you a preview of my featured interview with songstress/style star/beat-thumping DJ/hot mama, Solange Knowles, for LURVE Magazine’s Fall/Winter issue. LURVE’s editor, Lyna...
View ArticleHOMEGIRL
To be sure, apologies are in order. On my part, of course, for my rather conspicuous and abrupt absence all these months. I had fallen off the proverbial grid without much of a nominal tweet...
View ArticleINTERVIEW: MICHELLE ELIE FOR LURVE MAGAZINE
Perhaps some of my most cherished memories from my recent trip to Paris are my daily rousings from bed. As the rich notes of jazz singer Abbey Lincoln’s voice would enter my room, I could hear the...
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