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Steve Harvey and Disney: Recognizing the Value of A Child’s Dream

Posted on April 9, 2013 by | Leave a comment

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Dreamers dream

Dreams can come a dime a dozen. What we do with those dreams plays a huge part in determining our character, which ultimately leads us to our destiny. Continue reading →

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Harlem’s Fashion Row Celebrated Five Years in a Row

Posted on September 19, 2012 by | Leave a comment

During the recent spring shows in New York, a handful of New York designers and brands celebrated anniversaries. Harlem’s Fashion Row was among them. Continue reading →

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Interview with Fashion Photographer Keston Duke

Posted on September 10, 2012 by | Leave a comment

With Fashion Week 2012 around the corner, I had the great opportunity to sit down and interview Harlem, New York based fashion and beauty photographer Keston C. Duke. Mr. Duke is known for his fashion and beauty work. Continue reading →

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Harriette Cole Talks About her Collection 108 Stitches at The Brownstone In Harlem

Posted on January 11, 2012 by | Leave a comment

By Myeisha Essex

On Saturday, December 17, 2011, The Brownstone on Lenox Avenue hosted the launch of the newest addition of the Harriette Cole Collection,  a scarf line called 108 Stitches. Continue reading →

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Pitches for Breakfast With Rochelle Hill

Posted on March 24, 2011 by | Leave a comment

On March 26 Pitches for Breakfast, an open mic forum for business and professional women of Pan-African descent (African, African American, Caribbean, and Latino). Attendees and participants will enjoy breakfast and network with smart people that are looking for ways to grow their career or business. Continue reading →

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Walter’s World: 2011 Harlem Fine Arts Show

Posted on February 24, 2011 by | Leave a comment

By Walter Rutledge

A civilization is ultimately defined not by what it does, but by what it leaves behind. It defines a people, and since antiquity speaks to the one race- the human race. The 2011 Harlem Fine Arts Show will present the fifteenth annual exhibition Friday, February 25 to Sunday February 27 in the Assembly and South Halls of The Riverside Church, located at 490 Riverside Drive. Continue reading →

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WNYC’s Black & Latino Literary Salon: Re-Read Of James Baldwin At Studio Museum In Harlem

Posted on February 9, 2011 by | Leave a comment

The precise role of the artist, then, is to illuminate that darkness, blaze roads through that vast forest, so that we will not, in all our doing, lose sight of its purpose, which is, after all, to make the world a more human dwelling place. –James Baldwin, “The Creative Process”

Join Celeste Headlee, host of WNYC’s The Takeaway; Patrik Henry Bass, senior editor at Essence Magazine; Darryl Pinckney, novelist, playwright and frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books; and Hilton Als, staff writer at The New Yorker, for a discussion about discovering what it means to be an artist in the world. Continue reading →

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Iman, Naomi & Liya Covers ESSENCE!

Posted on August 7, 2010 by | 1 Comment

Iman, Naomi and Harlem resident Liya Kebede on the 40th anniversary cover of Essence magazine.

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Essence Editor, Says Get a Life

Posted on July 29, 2010 by | Leave a comment

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After Essence announced the hire of a white fashion director, a group of vocal opponents surfaced and broadcast their concern on Facebook, Twitter, and many other places around the Internet. The magazine’s editor, Angela Burt-Murray, penned an opinion piece addressing the issue head-on for the Grio. She explains that she hired Ellianna Pracas, who has worked at O: The Oprah Magazine and Us Weekly, because she was impressed by the work she’s done running the fashion department as a freelancer over the past six months. Continue reading →

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HW Pick: Susan L. Taylor

Posted on February 27, 2010 by | Leave a comment

Born January 23, 1946, in New York, NY; daughter of Lawrence and Violett Taylor; married William Bowles, 1967 (divorced, 1971); married Khephra Burns; children: (first marriage) Shana-Nequai (daughter).
Education: Fordham University, B.A.

Actress, Negro Ensemble Company; licensed cosmetologist, beginning c. 1970; founder, and president of Nequai Cosmetics, 1970-72; Essence magazine, free-lance writer, beauty editor, 1970-71, fashion and beauty editor, 1971-80, editor-in-chief, 1980–; television host/executive producer, Essence, the Television Program, late 1980s; Essence Communications Inc., executive coordinator, then vice- president, 1983–. Author of Essence column “In the Spirit”; author of In the Spirit: The Inspirational Writings of Susan L. Taylor, 1993.

Editor-in-chief of the enormously popular magazine Essence, Susan L. Taylor is also the author of 1993′s In the Spirit, a collection of essays reprinted from her Essence column of the same name. Taylor is a key source of critical thought, inspiration, and encouragement for African American women throughout America. She was called “the most influential black woman in journalism today” by American Libraries in 1994. Continue reading →

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