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Take the genius of Black and brown innovators, millennials and lovers of the culture. Then, watch them flourish.
When HBO first announced Girls, I felt as if we were finally going to get a feminist version of Queer as Folk — raw, real, fairly representational, diverse and controversial. Instead, we got another set of four white women in New York with boy problems, only less Manolo Blahnik and more millennial angst. And by angst […]
You and your friend mac’ and cheese, Candy yams, collard greens, but you knocking me to my knees,” Nas once rapped on his song entitled “Fried Chicken,” signifying just a few of the food staples you might spot on a Black family’s Thanksgiving table or any given Sunday. Lest we forget the collard greens, okra, and chitterlings. But […]
Kéla Walker is known to get ‘fits off on Instagram and is an authority in the lifestyle space. So to keep her closet in tip-top shape she’s hitting the streets of Brooklyn courtesy of Swipe by Lexus to see what’s in style. Her first stop is to see Cory of The Brooklyn Circus — a […]
Kéla is still in New York for the second episode of SWIPE but decided to hop over to Manhattan to get some inspiration at the Intersect by Lexus space. After checking out some dope art she heads over to meet Brandon Franklin of B.M. Franklin & Co who’s been using styles from the 1920s as […]