I’m excited to announce our Top 50 Amazing Tech Tastemakers and Top 50 Amazing Women in Tech Tastemakers. It’s been an interesting few months around here, and as always we learn a lot from both the people we interview, and also you, the audience. That said we’re making part of our Tastemakers list crowdsourced; you can…
Russell Simmons brings a spin-off of his long-running “Def Poetry Jam” to HBO viewers. “Brave New Voices” created by Simmons and co-creator Stan Lathan is hosted by rapper-turned actor, Common, and actress Rosario Dawson. The 60-minute poetry show debuted last Saturday, October 23, with special behind-the-scenes footage of the 5-day Brave New Voices Festival. The…
Rihanna graces the cover of Marie Claire UK’s “Glamour Issue” for December 2010. On the newsstand edition she’s pretty in pink in a peachy-colored feather sweater dress by Sonia Rykiel. But subscribers get a special treat with an alternate cover on which Rih-Rih dons a sparkling Mark Fast minidress. Are you feeling the looks?
Entwine Couture Beauty, LLC, is a minority and woman-owned manufacturer, distributor, and marketer of premier hair, skin, and body care products. It’s creator, Dr. Adrienne Carthon, is a natural hair stylist and professor of Women’s Studies & African-American Literature. In her search for products to style and maintain her natural hair, Dr. Carthon started experimenting…
Fashion Chef Sophia Hyacinthe creates outfit recipe for recent college graduate in desperate need of a chic interview outfit. For more information on Savory Styles please visit www.savorystyles.com.
A new parody of President Barack Obama has hit the Web, causing a stir and wide debate. The YouTube video, “Baracka Flacka Flames – Head of the State,” remixes Wacka Flacka’s “Hard in the Paint” track and shows a gangsta version of the president rapping around in an urban Black community. According to the YouTube…
From Black Voices — Who says there is no such thing as racial profiling? A preppy-attired young black man hailed a New York City cab in the wee hours of Saturday morning. As the Wall Street worker attempted to step in to the vehicle, the driver asked where he was going and when the response…
From The Grio — In today’s world there are many words that we all consider and recognize as curses. Whether it’s the sugar-honey-ice-t’s, the female dogs, the mother-flockers or the f-word. Somewhere in that mix, our economy has added a few others; we now have our Sallie Mae’s, Fannie Mae’s, student loans, ARMs (Adjustable Rate Mortgages),…
President Obama to Blacks: Vote like I’m on the ballot, IMF says Africa bouncing back from global crisis, LeBron back where it ended, for same old result + more.
Selita Ebanks attends ‘Ron Barcelo Gran Platinum’ party in Madrid on October 26, 2010.
Yesterday afternoon my Twitter feed was on fire about a rather offensive article that’d been posted on Marie Claire’s—of all magazines!—website. In “Should “Fatties” Get a Room? (Even on TV?)”, author Maura Kelly openly voices her disgust with overweight individuals displaying intimacy in public, and on television. The conversation was sparked in response to an…
Celebrity Hair Stylist Marcia Hamilton Like any tremendously talented hair stylist in the industry who is worth her salt, Marcia Hamilton has achieved all the prerequisite accolades. With that said, these awards sing of her credibility, but it is regarding her aptitude, and her edgy and passionate approach to hair creations where fashion stylist agree,…
Last week, the widely viewed video titled “Black Marriage Negotiations” hit the Web sparking debate between Black women and men on the state of marriage and relationships. The three-minute animated clip shows a Black professional woman opposite a Black professional man in a boardroom negotiating marriage with the Black woman’s demands shown as largely unreasonable…
