New York City

Jazz music “still lives, and people need to know that,” says Fantasia, referring to the new foot-stomping Broadway revue After Midnight, in which she costars alongside Dulé Hill (The West …
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In her new book, Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina (Touchstone), Misty Copeland opens up about her rise from poverty to becoming the first African American female soloist in two …
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Nona Hendryx is best known as one of the original members the iconic space-age girl group, Labelle.   As in her current exhibition – Transformation: The Beautiful Cruelty …
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“There is only one moment of sanity in anyone’s day – coffee,” declares Shelly, the Shealy family’s eldest and primary caretaker for DOT, their matriarch and the title character of …
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Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce has done what no woman of the Caribbean has— won the Olympic 100 meter gold medal. Twice.

The girl from Waterhouse, one of Kingston’s most infamous and …
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Genius is a title often carelessly conferred. Fashion lines are called “genius.” Inscrutable works of modern art are called “genius.” But every now and again a true artistic genius is …
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