“It doesn’t have to be pretty to be true. But if it is true its beautiful.” -Roy DeCarava Roy DeCarava documented everyday people. As one of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century, he became the first black person to win the Guggenheim fellowship in 1952. His work is best known for capturing the [...]

This place is cluttered to the maximum. Here, are all of the books that I have ever read. Starting from the pretty picture book fairytales on to the uncompromisingly honest autobiography of Malcolm X, illustrated only by the beautiful-ugly truths of America. Not to forget the obligatory collegiate readings that crushed the fairytales only to [...]

In the first part of our Black Body Politic series, we briefly discussed the history of black models and fashion. This installment finds us chatting with up and coming model Khayattollah. Khayattollah has been a model and muse for the Boxing Kitten brand, an amazing company whose designs are based on the tradition of women with [...]

The word model derives from the Latin root modellus, which describes a human’s typical approach at coping with reality. A model has the propensity to illustrate and define the segment of reality that they are representing. In the case of fashion models the same rules apply. Fashion designers are folks who attempt to create their [...]