Fashion designer and Brooklynite Simone Williams broke the Guinness World Record for having the largest Afro back in December 2020, a title that was previously held for eight years by Aevin Dugas. Measuring in at 8.07 inches tall and 8.85 inches wide, Williams’s...
In early December a tweet by writer Emily Nunn about Mank, the Netflix movie about Citizen Kane co-writer Herman J. Mankiewicz, went viral. The tweet read: “Herman J. Mankiewicz’s wife, Sara, was born in 1897, the same year as her husband. In the David Fincher movie...
For Mikki Taylor, Take Your Daughter to Work Day meant accompanying her mother, Modina Davis, to “The Ed Sullivan Show” in 1959. Except Davis, stylist and assistant to Newark music legend Sarah Vaughan, didn’t need a designated day for that. She constantly stood as an...
Even Rihanna isn’t pandemic-proof. LVMH, the luxury goods company that backed her Fenty fashion label is putting Rihanna on the back burner for now after sales got off to a slow start and then slowed down even more once the pandemic hit. Officially, billionaire...
FERGUSON, Mo. — A local business is bringing beauty accessories from West Africa to St. Louis. Waist beads go back to the 15th century and they’re experiencing a growth in popularity today.Thanks in part to a local woman. Brittany Raji-Alberty from Ferguson is...
Go ahead and Google: Ophelia DeVore. “Ophelia started out as a model, but then she owned a modeling agency. She was a lighter-skinned woman with an ambiguous look. When she signed with an agency, she didn’t tell them that she was Black. She thought they knew—until she...
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