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...My style icon is the late actress Roxie Roker, who played Helen Willis in the 1970s TV series The Jeffersons....
...For those interested in reading more about African-American history, fashion and the intersection of the two, two memoirs by African-American writers, Margo Jefferson’s Negroland and André Leon Talley’s...
...It was no accident, then, that in 1796 George Washington proposed a national university; that Jefferson took special pride in founding the University of Virginia; and that in 1822, supporting a “Plan of...
...“There’d be Jefferson Airplane playing by the caff on the heath, on the bandstand, and 200 skinheads just walked through the middle in a line. They almost ended the concert....
...Cassava Republic was also the first publisher to recognise the talents of Teju Cole, whose Known and Strange Things (Faber/ Random House) is my non-fiction book of the year....
...Rumor they heard our new spring collection is now available . . .” read the message posted on the Kenneth Cole Twitter page....
...Outside the front entrance, a star-shaped brass plaque nestles where Jefferson Davis took the oath of his short-lived office on February 18 1861....
...Nella Larsen’s Passing , Lola Shoneyin’s The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives , and the new Nigerian writer Teju Cole’s forthcoming novel, Open City [published next year]....
...The 150ft high building has been a feature of the Los Angeles skyline for 50 years, during which time its recording studios have played host to Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra and The Beach Boys....
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