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BKLYN Fashion Academy Class of 2019 Shines at Runway Show

Model in Simone Imaani design (Photo: Gregg Richards/Brooklyn Library)PROSPECT PARK – The BKLYN Fashion Academy [https://www.bklynlibrary.org/bklyn-fashion-academy] (BFA) held its second runway show in the Grand Lobby of the Brooklyn Public Library on Friday. BFA designers showcased their Fall/Winter mini-capsule collections, interpreting the history and

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Fashion Week Brooklyn – F/W 2019’s Inclusive Designer Showcase

Coketta finale walk at Fashion Week Brooklyn. Photo by FWBK/Trudy Giordano BEDFORD-STUYVESANT – Fashion Week Brooklyn (FWBK)’s F/W 2019 Collections designer showcase was a sartorial mix of high and low fashion for the season. Five brands took the runway on Friday night at the 630 Flushing Avenue event

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Springtime on Fifth: Shopping Edition

The rack at St. Hrouda. Spring 2019The spring wardrobe, the most delicate of seasonal wardrobes to put together. With the often unpredictable and uncooperative winter season still lingering on, some might have reservations about when, where, and what clothing to get as we usher in the new spring season. Now

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Unapologetically Black Celebration of Black Writers And The Space They Make

CROWN HEIGHTS -There was standing room only in each of the sessions at the 2019 National Black Writers Conference Biennial Symposium, held yesterday at Medgar Evers College. The attendees were excited, engaged, and unapologetically black as they embraced the day’s special guests and speakers. “I always feel extra black

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“For colored girls” late playwright and poet Ntozake Shange to be honored by NBWC at Medgar Evers College

Ntozake Shange byAdger Cowans/Center for Black Literature, used with permission. CROWN HEIGHTS – The 2019 National Black Writers Conference Biennial Symposium [http://centerforblackliterature.com/2019-nbwc-shange/] will this year pay tribute to the renowned playwright, novelist, and Obie Award-winning poet Ntozake Shange, who passed away in October at age 70. The