Commentary
Fearless in 2021
DIONNE CHARACTER Female Empowerment Columnist LET THE CHURCH SAY AMEN… I am so elated that I did not have to do any jail time taking out the gardener blowing imaginary leaves outside my window, disturbing […]
Fashion
Data Zone
TOAST THE NEW YEAR IN STYLE
Tracce Dundas Fashion Stylist Like most things in 2020, New Year’s Eve is looking a little different this year due to COVID-19. Perhaps you won’t be ringing in 2021 with 500 of your closest friends, […]
Data Zone
A Hawk’s Eye for Fashion
Tracee Dundas Fashion Stylist Like most African American households in the ‘50’s and ‘60’s clothes were often acquired as “hand-me-downs” from a sibling, or the skillset of sewing was taught by the family matriarchs; the […]
Data Zone
Fashionally Yours NOLA
Tracee Dundas Data News Weekly Contributor BARE ESSENTIALS Little else in needed when wearing jewels with luscious embellishments, touches of gold and are able to stand on its own to make a bold statement. […]
Black Experience
Women’s History Month 2020
Data News Weekly Staff Edited Report It is truly historical times for women not just in America, but across the globe come together. The Me-Too era has made women’s voices and demands for equality and […]
Entertainment
Fashion, Fluidity, Feminism and Pharrell
Maiysha Kai Writer theroot.com “I am my most comfortable self when I’m being a character,” says Pharrell in his cover story for GQ’s “The New Masculinity” issue, where the producer-entertainer-designer dons what this writer immediately […]
Fashion
Travel Wear Reimagined
During the 2019 New York fashion showcases, Shangani Fashions reimagines fall-winter styling for the modern traveler. The brand emerged on the New York runways starting in 2017 by redefining women’s travel-wear with a contemporary African […]
Fashion
A Look into the E. Robert Art Gallery
By Avane Ervin Contributor Photos by Avane Ervin In celebration of the recent opening of a his new art gallery, New Orleans native, Ernest Robert hosted a welcoming event on April 9, 2019, where the […]
Fashion
From New Orleans to Paris and Back
By Kimani Hamilton A passion for fashion, a dream, and determination was all this young designer, Daeja Richardson had when she was growing up. “At the age of 14, I started my own fashion brand: […]
Fashion
Social Campaign Takes On Discriminatory Hair Standards
By Brandon Brown After Faith Fennidy, an 11-year-old African-American girl, was removed because of her ethnic hairstyle from Christ the King Elementary School, her Xavier University big sisters decided to show her that she is […]