Click Read More + Comment to view video. This past Monday I celebrated my Birthday at Cafeteria with my amazing girls, Nikisha and Fran of HeyFranHey after we concluded our forum at the Meadowlands in New Jersey, for the International Hair & Beauty Show. Then the following day I wrapped up the festivities with my man(…)
Click ‘Read More + Comment’ for additional photos. Contemporary painters, Tim Okamura, Jerome Lagarrigue, Taha Clayton and Joseph Adolphe will exhibit their latest work in a boxing-themed collection titled “Round Zero”. Curated by Dexter Wimberly, the exhibit will be on display May 13–17th* at The Art Director’s Club in Manhattan.\ The exhibition also serves as the culmination(…)
Click ‘Read More + Comment’ for additional photos. I had the chance to see English electronic music producer/singer/songwriter, James Blake, who performed at Terminal 5 in New York last week. Trained as a pianist and singer since the tender age of 6, Blake drew inspiration not only from classical and jazz but American R&B, noting Stevie(…)
The fashion line Della has collaborated with Urban Outfitters to sell beautiful handcrafted pieces. I am in love with the prints and the colors! I will take one of everything please!!! You can purchase these pieces at Urban Outfitters. Della is a fashion line handcrafted by a community in Ghana, West Africa. The passionate,(…)
Click ‘Read More + Comment’ for additional photos and video. “I’m from London and I have 4 blonde sisters and a blonde brother, we have a different dad. Growing up in a very white working class environment and being brown with an afro, kinda already put me on the outside, so I was able to(…)
Quinoa: ”a grain-like crop grown primarily for its edible seeds. It is a pseudocereal rather than a true cereal, or grain, as it is not a member of the true grass family. As a chenopod, quinoa is closely related to species such as beets, spinach and tumbleweeds.” (-wikipedia) Belonging to a class all of its own this imposter of a grain has the highest protein content of(…)
Click ‘Read More + Comment’ for additional photos & video. “The core of my work oscillates between portraiture and design, exploring themes related to the body, language and the formation of identity. From rendering a figure by writing a text repetitively to sewing highly individualized uniforms, my work unpacks layers of meaning embedded in how(…)
Click on Read More + Comment to see photos. I get to give you guys an official sneak peak of the photography book Visual Insights: Outer Borough by my dear great friends Rog and Bianca Walker. What does a two year photographic journey look like? This is a comprehensive collection of photographs shot over(…)
Click ‘Read More + Comment’ to view preview video. Executive Producers Jay-Z, Dream Hampton and Wyatt Cenac present Terence Nance’s explosively creative debut feature, ‘An Oversimplification of Her Beauty’. “With arresting insight, vulnerability, and a delightful sense of humor, ‘An Oversimplification of Her Beauty’, documents the relationship between Nance and a lovely young woman as(…)
Many of you might remember Melissa Flerangile from her UrbanBushBabe interview. This woman is a ray of sunshine and she is an amazing dancer! She has toured with “iD” by Cique Eloize and danced in a show in Vegas called The Beatles “LOVE” by Cirque du Soleil. I wanted to share something wonderful that she(…)
