A little over a week ago, I went to see ‘All the Way,’ the Broadway play starring Bryan Cranston as President Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ). The play focused on LBJ’s first 11 months in office after President Kennedy’s assassination, showing how he grew into the role and leveraged his newfound power to pass landmark Civil… Continue Reading
If you asked a group of people what their career aspirations were, most of them would probably say they’d want to work with a mogul like Sean Combs. That was once a dream for Karleen Roy too, but she’s already checked that one off her list. And now with the recent launch of her new… Continue Reading
Over the last few years, Global Grind has become a must-read destination for the hip hop generation looking for political and cultural analysis of current events, lifestyle and entertainment news and exclusive interviews with top musicians. If you’ve gone to the site and read any of the aforementioned music and entertainment news, chances are you’ve… Continue Reading
Marketing images of tourists traveling abroad have historically been devoid of faces and people representative of the African Diaspora. So if you didn’t know any better, you could almost be forgiven for buying into the myth that black people don’t travel. A myth that Zim Ugochukwu (@zimism), 25, believed herself at one point while living… Continue Reading
We’ve all been there before. You go to retrieve one of your favorite beauty products only to realize that there are just a few drops left in the bottle or jar along the sides and in the crevices. To coax the last bit of product out, you try banging the bottom on a hard surface.… Continue Reading
Over the weekend, Travel Noire, a new blog and company that features cultivated insights from a global community of black travelers, hosted its first Google Hangout session on how to get paid to travel the world. The session was moderated by Travel Noire founder Zim Ugochukwu (@zimism) and included the following guests: Nicole Grimes (@geektreks) of GeekTreks.com, Quinn… Continue Reading
I was first introduced to Tonya Garcia when she was an editor at PRNewser, a MediaBistro site that covers the public relations industry. I always enjoyed reading her witty and straight forward perspective on the industry and appreciated her efforts to highlight diverse topics and people. She was always extremely responsive to pitches; even if they… Continue Reading
One of the perks that comes with living and working in New York is that there’s an event for everything. From Monday through Friday you can find yourself turning up at an open bar for a product launch, an anniversary celebration for a colleague or a gala for your favorite charity. So the odds of… Continue Reading
Danielle Kwateng is the lead news writer for the digital fashion site StyleBlazer. Over the last year, she’s played a huge role in turning StyleBlazer into a credible outlet for fashion news, analysis and the first word on the latest industry trends. Prior to joining the SB team, Danielle wrote for Glamour, People StyleWatch, Ebony… Continue Reading
The last two winters in New York have been pretty mild, so when the meteorologist started talking about a polar vortex and record low temps, I kinda just shrugged it off and thought “a polar vor- what?” But with temperatures hitting 3 degrees, which felt like negative 10 at times and almost 4 snow… Continue Reading