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. “Mater Mea was born from a simple idea…that mothers come from all different walks of life. It’s a truth that one sees while strolling down countless streets, but one that is rarely reflected online. And that’s where Mater Mea comes in — this site is a celebration(…)
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(…)
Mater Mea is a incredibly breathtaking “bimonthly online magazine that celebrates the lives of high-profile women of color as they balance work and motherhood. Using stunning photographs and in-depth profiles, readers are immersed into the lives of awe-inspiring women in the most intimate settings: at home, with their children.”–Mater Mea Mengly & Ousmane (…)
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 ‘Read More + Comment’ for additional photos. Featured photo by Chuck Johns. Writer/Actress/Radio-Presenter, Erickka Sy Savane shares with us her personal journey of struggle, in what others deemed her beautiful tresses as, “Bad” hair. Giving power to a label, Erickka realizes the struggle ended with herself. “Bad Hair” by: Erickka Sy Savane (…)
Click ‘Read More + Comment’ to view video. For some, hair is just hair but for others, including myself, a natural hair journey is more of a personal reflection, revealing a visual timeline to the transformation of who I really was…ME! Meet Kayla Enigma of ‘Revealing the Roots’ who shares her one year natural hair(…)
Click ‘Read More + Comment’ to view video. “On our body image roundtable we begin the conversation about how painful the inauthentic, unattainable, cookie-cutter norms have been to females and why mass culture accepts these (or any standards) that diminish women. Style and beauty is a self confidence that comes from a willingness to be as(…)
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(…)
