i-D Magazine's September 2009 issue features models Chanel, Sessilee, Jourdan and Arlenis titled Pretty Young Things, I can't wait to get my hands on this issue. I'm happy to see women of colour being more visible in the fashion industry. Below I've posted the promotional video and you can also visit i-D Magazine here for more info.
Solange and Q-Tip attended the Michael Jackson birthday celebration in New York City recently, looking good Solange.
Shuantae1 has posted another one of her inspirational videos and I LUV IT!!! Education is power, let's educate ourselves and keep pushing the truth.
Many of you are in transition, learning about your natural hair and growing as an individual with it. You are transforming into a new you. Your natural hair is just that - natural. It is who you are. We place so much emphasis on the products that we use when embracing our hair that we may miss the journey in front of us. 
Against her good sense and her husband’s wishes, she applies for a high profile PR job to help save a struggling city hospital manned by none other than her former boyfriend, Dr. Clint Fairchild, the very one and same who dumped her and married long-silky haired bombshell, Kandi Treboe. Venus soon finds out the two women are vying for the same job. This time competition between she and her old nemesis turns into a battle Venus is determined to win by any means necessary.
With an unhappy hubby at home, a nanny who’s becoming mommy in her child’s eyes, while forming an uncomfortably close relationship with her husband, and a deviant at work sabotaging the hospital, Venus may have taken on much more than she can handle. (Source)
Over the past few months I have been raving about Qhemet Biologics Amla Oil Nourishing Pomade, so I thought why not do a review. I have to start off by saying this is the best pomade I have used thus far and am thrilled that Qhemet Biologics made a superior product that is all natural and vegan with simple ingredients that deliver amazing results. The pomade is a thick consistency reminiscent of old-school grease but without the petro-chemicals. I use it on damp hair to slick my hair into a puff or bun when I don't feel like using gel which is most of the time. I use it to moisturize my hair line to catch my baby hairs and as a nourishing shine enhancing sealant to the entire length of my hair when doing my curly 'fro, afro, twist and braid styles. 
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Crips And Bloods - Made In America is a documentary film from Stacy Peralta, the director of Dogtown & Z Boys and Riding Giants. It is presented by Terrence Howard and narrated by Academy Award Winner Forest Whitaker. This award winning film is featured by PBS' Independent Lens and was first featured at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and since than has garnered acclaim for its truthful depiction of the of gang members in South Central Los Angeles.
Synopsis:
From the genesis of LA’s gang culture to the shocking, war-zone reality of daily life in the South L.A., the film chronicles the rise of the Crips and Bloods, tracing the origins of their bloody four-decades long feud. Contemporary and former gang members offer their street-level testimony that provides the film with a stark portrait of modern-day gang life: the turf wars and territorialism, the inter-gang hierarchy and family structure, the rules of behavior, the culture of guns, death and dishonor.
Throughout the film ex-gang members, gang intervention experts, writers, activists and academics analyze many of the issues that contribute to South LA’s malaise: the erosion of identity that fuels the self-perpetuating legacy of black self-hatred, the disappearance of the African-American father and an almost pervasive prison culture in which today one out of every four black men will be imprisoned at some point in his life.
Finally the gang members themselves articulate their enduring dream of a better life. They provide CRIPS AND BLOODS: MADE IN AMERICA with its ultimate statement: a message of hope and a cautionary tale of redemption aimed at saving the lives of a new generation of kids, not just in South LA but anywhere in the world that gang violence exists. (Source)
The people living and breathing everyday in these communities have been given the utensils of their own demise - drugs, alcohol, guns, poor quality food, hate, bitterness and hopelessness. These utensils have been nurtured over many decades and now it has been let loose. I would be bitter too, not because I am black but because I am a human being, and denying me my existence would kill something in me everyday. How can such wealth be amassed in this region and yet have such poverty, it is not only of the physical but the mind. We need to let the world know that this war is just as damaging as any other conflict seen in war torn regions of the world.
The only thing that has been guaranteed by the government is more prisons, less access to educational programs for inner city children and the demand on parents to continue to make 'ends meet' in an economy that has allowed pockets of failure to persist within our communities.
To learn more visit the offical website here. I have added a few parts of the documentary, tell me your thoughts by leaving a comment or an e mail.
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Darren Anthony, Playwright
Trey Anthony and Darren Anthony with the cast of Secrets Of A Black Boy 
Solange and her sister Beyonce were promoting Samantha Thavasa Disney Collection in Japan at a recent press conference. Fierce and just simply BU-TEE-FUL!!!
