Visits: 23 In her new one-woman show, she details her 50-year modeling career, her tumultuous relationships — and an unsettling encounter with Bill Cosby. She was 18, new to New York, a tenderfoot in an industry said to eat its …
The Statue of Liberty Hat
Visits: 25 Paying an unexpected price for a novelty crown. It is early April, in the evening. I’m walking through Times Square on my way to a birthday dinner at a restaurant I’ve never been to. As I weave through …
Helen Williams, Top Model in a Segregated Era, Is Dead at 87
Visits: 43 She was one of the most photographed Black models of the 1950s and ’60s, seen mainly in magazines, like Ebony and Jet, aimed at the Black middle class. Swan-necked and with an arched-eyebrow hauteur, Helen Williams was the …
Preserving Hula, the Heartbeat of Hawaii
Visits: 47 HILO, Hawaii — The airy Edith Kanaka‘ole Stadium in Hilo, Hawaii, was silent except for bird song and the low, steady chanting of Mapuana de Silva as she sprinkled a mixture of turmeric and saltwater along the perimeter …
Can Balenciaga Break With Kanye?
Visits: 23 The fashion brand and the rapper have had an intense love affair. But after Ye’s White Lives Matter shirt and antisemitic comments, the company may need to be heartless. In all the noise that has been generated by …
Edward Enninful Also Wears Prada
Visits: 23 LONDON — Edward Enninful, the editor of British Vogue, gave me a list of friends to contact for this article. It’s a very impressive list, I told him when we had coffee in the kitchen of his London …
Vogue Cover Did Kamala Harris Wrong, Internet Says
Visits: 24 Though it might seem, in light of all that is going on currently in Washington, D.C., the least of the matter, on Sunday a leaked shot of Vice President-elect Kamala D. Harris’s Vogue cover set off an unexpected …
Meena Harris, Building That Brand
Visits: 24 Meena Harris, a lawyer and former tech executive, used to make statement T-shirts as a side job. Her most famous read, simply, “Phenomenal Woman.” (Perhaps you saw it on Instagram, worn by celebrities including Serena Williams, Lizzo, Ciara, …
Memories of Homecoming at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Visits: 59 Welcome To Homecoming! Welcome To Homecoming! At H.B.C.U.s, homecoming is part family reunion and part revival. It’s canceled this year, so let’s celebrate here. Oct. 7, 2020 Video transcript Back transcript ‘Baptized in Blackness’: Why Homecoming Is Vital …
Overlooked No More: Lucy Diggs Slowe, Scholar Who Persisted Against Racism and Sexism
Visits: 31 This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. It is also part of The Times’s continuing coverage of the centennial of the 19th …