On this Fashion Friday, Erica Campbell chats with her business partner and stylist Vernon Martin, who has styled greats such as Cicely Tyson, Serena Williams, Angela Bassett and, of course, Erica herself! Vernon talks about Erica’s very own hair line “Erica By Erica Campbell,” and explains why he wanted to launch it with her. “You’re […]

National

Thursday night, the Democratic National Convention culminated a presidential primary season that saw a self-proclaimed billionaire rise to prominence on the strength of bombastic rhetoric, thinly veiled racially charged comments, and the idea that America is broken and needs to be made “great again.” The same election cycle that produced Donald Trump has also produced Hillary Clinton, who […]

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There a few things more satisfying than shutting down ignorance, and Cicely Tyson will never forget the moment she got to confront racism and turn…

Inauguration 2013

I missed the first one.  When Barack Hussein Obama was sworn in as our first African-American president with an agenda that I believed passionately in,…

National

Yesterday, just days before the Oscars, ESSENCE magazine honored the best and brightest of Black Women in Hollywood. They asked the ladies to come together to celebrate the legendary achievements of some of the greatest American actresses of our times. They honored: Hollywood royalty Cicely Tyson with the Legend Award Break-out star Gabourey Sidibe with […]