theHotness » Michaela angela Davis http://thehotness.com spirit.fire.she Fri, 17 May 2013 15:38:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Essence Mag Hires A White Fashion Director http://thehotness.com/2010/07/29/essence-mag-hires-a-white-fashion-director/ http://thehotness.com/2010/07/29/essence-mag-hires-a-white-fashion-director/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:57:01 +0000 theHotness http://thehotness.com/?p=1355 essence_covers

Last Wednesday morn lovely styleaholic Najwa tweeted: “Just heard some very disturbing news about Essence magazine.” I tweeted back: “Did they fold?” Never got a response because I forgot to type the friggin “@” symbol. Then on Sunday I saw this Facebook update by cultural critic & former Essence Fashion Editor Michaela angela Davis: “It is with a heavy heavy heart I have learned that Essence magazine…,” okay by now I’m thinking, ‘Oh God, Susan Read more...

]]> http://thehotness.com/2010/07/29/essence-mag-hires-a-white-fashion-director/feed/ 8 From Hottentot Venus To The White House http://thehotness.com/2009/10/29/from-hottentot-venus-to-the-white-house/ http://thehotness.com/2009/10/29/from-hottentot-venus-to-the-white-house/#comments Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:41:19 +0000 theHotness http://thehotness.com/?p=563 Last Saturday’s dreary grayness did not stop me and about 100 women from attending NY Open Center’s panel, “From Hottentot Venus To The White House: Black Women On Beauty & Bodies.”  The panelists were Veronica Webb (Super+Role Model), Tricia Rose (Chair, Africana Studies @Brown U.), Susan Akkad (SVP Corporate Marketing/Diversity for Estee Lauder) with Michaela angela Davis (Cultural Critic) moderating.

I settled in with style maven Sharon Pendana sitting on my left and Ngozi Odita, founder Read more...

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