In Black style this week, your house can smell like Prince, Fashion Fair takes on breast cancer, Ambi skincare offers skin wisdom and more.
For anyone who thinks it’s too late to book a photographer, find the coordinating attire and produce a Christmas card photo, perhaps you need to take a page out of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s book — go with something you already have.
The pair revealed their annual holiday card, and in keeping with tradition, the photo featured was one from an event earlier this year, when the two attended
The Natural Diamond Council and the Black in Jewelry Coalition join forces to educate the next generation
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The next great American legacy jewelry brand may be in our midst.
The Natural Diamond Council has partnered with the Black in Jewelry Coalition on a novel jewelry education program launching at Baldwin High School in Baldwin, New York, in the fall of 2024. The program will expose the next generation of Black and brown jewelers to each sector of the jewelry industry.
“The Natural Diamond Council is proud to be partnering with the Black in Jewelry Coalition in 2024,” the managing director of the council, Kristina Buckley Kayel, told Women’s Wear Daily. “It is critical we facilitate and expand entry into our legacy industry, where long-term, quality careers are possible from design to technology to retail and beyond. Joining forces with BIJC to train, inspire and mentor potential talent among a high school population on the fundamentals of jewelry is a catalyst towards realizing our collective mission of building a more equitable future for the diamond jewelry industry.”
BlackMass and Ephraim Asili introduce “Sampling as Life”
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This weekend, Yusuf Hassan and Kwamé Sorrell of BlackMass Publishing will collaborate with filmmaker Ephraim Asili to host a lecture performance to debut Asili’s latest show, “Song for My Mother.” Entitled “Sampling as Life,” at this event, the artists will combine “fragments of sound, image, video, and music alongside an open-ended dialogue” while diving into a discussion of the history of sampling within Black creative expression and expanding society’s traditional understanding of “authorship, originality, and forms of archival practice.”
According to Amant, “The installation investigates Ephraim’s journey across North Florida, from the small town of Quincy where the remains of his maternal lineage reside, to Daytona Beach, the home of Bethune Cookman University (BCU), one of the state’s four remaining Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).” Though tickets are currently sold out for the Sampling as Life event, fans can still purchase tickets to see Asili’s three-pieced body of work at the Amant nonprofit organization in Brooklyn.
