Hailing from the St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, R.CITY (aka Rock City) teamed up with Akon’s Konlive Records (a joint venture with Interscope) to step on the scene.
Comprised of brothers Theron (aka Da Spokesman) and Timothy (aka Don’t Talk Much), this duo is trying to bring their brand of Caribbean spiced Hip-Hop with a Pop sensibility to the masses. Check it out their first single “Losin’ It” and give your two cents.
R. CITY’S “LOSIN IT” IS…
- HOT (54%, 1,513 Votes)
- IT’S AIIGHT (25%, 703 Votes)
- NOT (21%, 574 Votes)
Total Voters: 2,790
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Chanel Iman & Jourdann Dunn are the most demanded models of color in today’s fashion shows | Wire.
BET raises awareness to the lack of Black Models in the fashion industry tonight with the BET News Special: Fashion Blackout:
BET News takes an inside look at one of fashion’s industry’s lasting weaknesses: The lack of Black models at major fashion shows and ad campaigns. Across the globe, as the runways fade to white, we have to ask ourselves, “Has Black become unfashionable?”
Top Black style-makers will pull no punches as they expose their industry’s dirty little secret: racism by some of the top names in fashion. Bethann Hardison, Naomi Campbell, Andre Leon Talley, Tracy Reese Liya Kebede, Iman and others give the lowdown on the lack of Black images in high fashion.
According to Targetmarket News.com Black women in the United States spend more than $20 billion on apparel each year. However, the runways, magazine spreads and the image/beauty industry at large is increasingly ignoring their buying power and their existence, choosing instead to market an eastern-European form of beauty as the standard. At the spring 2008 collections at Fashion Week in September 2007 in New York, the runways were dominated by white faces. In fact, Black faces were more absent from the runways than some fashion insiders have seen since the ‘60s. READ MORE
Vogue Italia plans to push the change, releasing its July issue with only non-white models. Be sure to catch BET’s special tonight @ 8:30 p.m ET/PT when they go behind the scenes of New York fashion Week…
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Check out this recently released video of Kanye West’s “Flashing Lights” featuring Dwele. This video is totally different from previous versions, and gives more of a spooky story. Its pretty cool, but I favor the first video better.
“Flashing Lights” is the third single off of Kanye’s album Graduation, which is in stores now.
Carl Rowan (1925-2000) was a federal cabinet member, international ambassador and one of the most prominent black journalists of the 20th century.
Born in Ravenscroft, Tennessee, to Thomas David and Johnnie B. Rowan on August 11, 1925, Rowan grew up during the Great Depression. As a young boy, Rowan worked hoeing bulb grass for 10 cents an hour, later performing hard manual labor for 25 cents an hour when there was work available. In his autobiography, Rowan told of living with “no electricity, no running water, no toothbrushes … no telephone, no radio and no regular inflow of money.”
He graduated in 1942 from Bernard High as valedictorian and class president. Rowan moved to Nashville with 77 cents in his pocket and the dream of a college education. In order to earn his tuition for college, he moved in with his grandparents and got a job in a tuberculosis hospital the summer before enrolling in the Tennessee Agricultural and Industrial State College (now Tennessee State University) in Nashville in the fall of 1942. Two years later, during World War II, Rowan passed a competitive exam to become one of the first blacks in Naval officer training.
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