Memorial Day

Thank you to all the men and women who gave their lives for our freedom.

Article about the families of fallen soldiers.

Fire

From the Manolo Blahnik spring collection:

Happy 85th Birthday, Malcolm X.

"If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything."
Malcolm X

Jill Scott's Dress

In the May issue of Essence magazine, Jill Scott had on a gorgeous orange wrap dress. After I googled it, I found it. The dress is the Marilyn Long Convertible Dress in orange(tangerine), by Monif C. The dress comes in orange(tangerine), white, black, canary yellow, fuchsia pink,and pool blue. The dress is also available short.



I NEED this dress!!!

R.I.P. Lena Horne

Lena Horne died last night at age 92, at New York-Presbyterian Hospital.

Lena Horne was the first African-American to be signed to a major Hollywood studio MGM, in 1942.

In addition to being a performer, she was also active in the civil rights movement.

She will be missed.



"I don't have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I'd become. I'm me, and I'm like nobody else." - Lena Horne

“You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way." -Lena Horne