Desirée Glapion Rogers is the descendant of a Creole voodoo priestess named Marie Laveau Glapion. The first time I meet her, she welcomes me into her East Wing lair—a rhythm and blues tune plays on a white iPod, a potted white orchid perches between two windows, fresh flowers sit on a heavy wooden desk. This […]

They sentenced him to death… Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam headed the junta which in 1974 overthrew the government of Emperor Haile Selassie in a bloody coup. Known as the “Derg” or “Dergue,” the “committee,” the junta consisted of about a hundred junior officers drawn from all regions of Ethiopia. [ link ] Now 71 and […]

via: slamX To me the KDU epitomizes how the streetwear and design communities best work… this is a difficult industry at times, with competition amongst the larger corporate companies often controlling bigger aspects of the culture not allowing the real leaders, the independents, the shine through, or profit.. The KDU helps combine the efforts and […]

President of the KDU, publisher of the The Royal Magazine and founder of SVSV, designer and brand strategist, David Gensler, is considered to be one of the top youth strategists in the world, today. Renowned for his work establishing, among others, Rocafella and The Human Brand in his 20s, Gensler has transitioned into working with […]

via: ttsmag  In a world filled with market saturation, world issues and economic problems there isn’t as much being done as it should be, or as it needs to be. But there are some who try no matter if its a whole new ball game to them, they’re the ones who can recognize what issues […]

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via:  HalftimeOnline As the front man for the legendary group Public Enemy Chuck D helped revolutionize the rap game by bringing political, social and cultural consciousness to the forefront of hip hop discussion. Following Public Enemy’s success a number of groups came forward with a foundation in Afrocentrism. The production team, The Bomb Squad consisting […]

brandywine creek Originally uploaded by son.delorian. Delaware has been good for business ever since Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours fled the French Revolution and built his gunpowder mills along Wilmington’s Brandywine Creek 200 years ago. The mill was the start of the DuPont Company, the city’s major private employer for generations. That role is […]

‘what i had was a sort of colonialized vision of who he was, sort of this image, this monster image of this black african man, who, was evil incarnate, um, and, that image has proved to not be correct, um, certainly there were many travesties that happened – deaths, but uh, its a much more […]

I often start trippin cause i’m not this, i’m not that, because i didn’t have formal training. This means that the evidence can be clearly seen as idiocy rather than genius or savant. Corporations teach us to be one, one of the many that envelope into a single object. I thought we were indie as […]

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