Bukola Somide is an entrepreneur and the founder of the first interactive African American STEM doll called “Somi,” which focuses on exposing kids to computer science concepts in a fun way ...

The program is part of an eight-cities and the U.S. Virgin Islands-based collaborative research project that began in 2010 to examine African American dress and identity.

An architect in Southern California wanted to create a larger home for her family. She was inspired, in part, by West African textiles and a dress she wore as a teenager.

After her amazing role as Ramonda, a.k.a. Wakanda’s queen mother, in Black Panther, Angela Bassett is still serving up looks fit for a royal! Over the weekend, Bassett attended the 2018 American ...

Catherine E. McKinley’s “The African Lookbook” and Richard Thompson Ford’s “Dress Codes” revisit the rules and repression imposed by the clothes we wear.

Those three are, of course, prominent features of current African-American culture. Ice-T is the non de plume of Tracy Lauren Marrow, a popular rap-hip hop music artist and actor of TV and music ...

Bukola Somide, and her eight-year-old daughter, Olusomi, the creators of the first-to-market African American interactive Somi, the Computer Scientist doll, are celebrating having won the 2022 ...

According to a News 24 article, the dress is an azucar fireworks design. Compared to the splattering flames of the fireworks when they are being lit, the loose crystal strings of the dress portray a ...

Kigali-based fashion designer Matthew Rugamba is stirring up African menswear, catering to both the bold and daring, as well as simpler tastes. His goal: to create the dress code for the modern ...

Taraji P. Henson had all eyes on her on Tuesday night when she arrived in a hypnotizing checker-print dress to opening night of the critically acclaimed play Jaja's African Hair Braiding.