Pics to make even the worst cynics fall in love with love.
Speaking of Trini girls! How did I miss Michelene in Duro Olowu’s Spring 2013 presentation?!
Source: http://www.style.com/fashionshows/review/S2013RTW-DOLOWU
Hey Britney! LOVE randomly coming across our trini girls on Tumblr.
(via hi-imcurrentlyobsessed)
“Solid Senders,” a 1940s comic strip by cartoonist George Mercer that was featured in Negro newspapers. Cartoonist Tim Jackson has a great site featuring galleries of historic comic strips by pioneering black cartoonists.
The caption reads, “When my boyfriend first tried to kiss me, I put him in his place, but darn it… he stays in it!”
Models Carol La Brie (right) and Ro Anne Nesbitt in the February 1969 issue of Vogue (US). Their (natural) hair was done by hair legend Harold Melvin. From the article:
Short stretch, left, soaring skyward. Long stretch, right, pouring right down to earth. Both: stretches of Afro hair imagination. Black hair, as free as the southeast wind, does what comes natural. What might that be? You name it. Just as “black” skins range through a jewelled spectrum of color, pale topaz through jet onyx, “black” hair has its own variations.
Another multi-culti Raveen hair ad. This one is from 1972.
“just” a soul singer…
Aretha Franklin in a Fashion Fair Cosmetics ad from the 1970s.


