Apr 14, 2022 | Entertainment, Organizations We Love
Search for: Studio Zewde is a landscape architecture, urban design, and public art practice based in Harlem, New York City. Named to the Architectural Digest AD100 and a 2021 Emerging Voice by the Architectural League of New York, the studio’s work is lauded for its...
Apr 14, 2022 | Entertainment, Girls We Love
Search for: For a month, Viola Davis had been stuck. In the spring of 2020, in the late nights of lockdown, she set out to write her memoir. She had her routine: Get out of bed in the middle of the night, make herself a cup of tea, start writing in her movie room,...
Mar 30, 2022 | Entertainment
Search for: NINA SIMONE WAS born Eunice Kathleen Waymon on Feb. 21, 1933, in the 660-square-foot house at 30 East Livingston Street. Simone’s mother was an ordained minister and domestic worker; her father ran his own dry-cleaning business and worked as a handyman....
Mar 30, 2022 | Entertainment
Search for: Become a singer despite the apartheid The kid who became the muse of Pan-Africanism in songs could have missed out on her own destiny. Flashback on a young Makeba locked behind apartheid’s barbed wire. Uzenzile: “You can only blame yourself” If you want to...
Mar 30, 2022 | Entertainment, Girls We Love
Search for: Remembering Miriam Makeba: SOMI On Her New Play and Album Celebrating The South African Legend SOMI is a Grammy-nominated singer, a songwriter, composer, actor and a playwright who has shared the stage with some of our world’s biggest stars—Angelique...
Jul 28, 2021 | Arts & Crafts, Entertainment, Entrepreneurship, Girls We Love
Search for: Fashion didn’t change for Liya Kebede, but Liya Kebede helped change fashion. Here, the 42-year-old model, entrepreneur, and advocate opens up about finding the strength that has fueled her two-decade career. Paris, via Zoom. Liya Kebede is sitting at a...
