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Continue reading →: When Art Masks – Actually It Kicks the Cover Off – #Racism and #Gender Issues #Diversity
You may have already seen this image of Dasha Zhukova, editor-in-chief of Garage Magazine. If not, gird your loins. It’s real. The photo was used in an editorial on Buro 24/7, a site run by fashion darling Miroslava Duma, that was released on the Martin Luther King Jr.’s holiday. Of…
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Continue reading →: Sasheer Zamata: SNL’s Black, Female Unicorn #diversity #race #gender @thesheertruth
This week Saturday Night Live announced that Sasheer Zamata joined its cast. Zamata is SNL’s first black female cast member since 2007. Most people are thrilled with Zamata’s appointment. But everyone is making a huge issue out of her race and gender, as though that played a significant part in…
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Continue reading →: Santa Claus Doesn’t Have to Be White @craftingmystyle #diversity
Slate culture blogger Aisha Harris found herself in the middle of a little kerfuffle recently over Santa Claus, of all things. Harris wrote a piece suggesting the traditional white Santa might better serve the world today as a penguin. Before you go off the rails, she makes a valid argument…
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Continue reading →: Remembering Nelson Mandela: 1918-2013
Nelson Mandela died Tuesday at age 95. He will be forever known as a humanitarian – a man who carried a message of reconciliation and forgiveness close to his heart, even after being jailed for 27 years, and consistently shared it with others. Mandela’s belief in peace and equality never…
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Continue reading →: Pharrell Is the Master of the Hook
This song is so simple, but so wonderful! I adore the message and the way it makes me smile. It’s got this gorgeous throwback feel, like music used to be, real and designed to make you bounce. Good times. And can he pimp a hat! Lawd.
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Continue reading →: Dear Lily Allen: Point Not Well Made
Okay, so a friend hipped me to Lily Allen’s new single “Hard Out Here.” I watched the video because my buddy gushed over Allen’s supposed statement for the piece, one of empowerment and a kind of middle finger to the music industry for trying to force women into skinny, cookie…
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Continue reading →: @justsanaa, you have my deepest shopping empathy. At least we know our weakness.
In November Ebony’s cover story on tomorrow’s release The Best Man Holiday, actress Sanaa Lathan says, “It was $500 a week. I have a shopping problem sometimes,” of her winning Instagram campaign for the film and writer/director Malcom Lee’s contest/internal promotion tactics. Preach. But I’m proud to say, I haven’t…
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