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                    ARTIST-SONGWRITER-PHOTOGRAPHER-WRITER              [WASHINGTON, D.C.]          

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Hair Appointment

Shot by @sianeh16 (IG askphotos_)

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RIP: Nelson Mandela (1918-2013)

Photo by Ian Berry, South Africa, 1994.

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Ten Toes Down: The Black Ballerina (2021)

A Sunday School Production.

Photography by Kreshonna Keane

This story weaves fashion, nostalgia, movement, and history to highlight just how important representation is.

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Koffee for Rolling Stone (2021); photographed by Adrian McDonald

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A Psycho Waits, Eric Kroll

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Just because it’s Ramadan, doesn’t mean you have to slack🤷🏽‍♀️

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Stevie Wonder attends the 1989 Rock N Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony  in New York City

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Black History Month: Zelda Wynn Valdes

You may not have heard of Zelda Wynn Valdes, but you’ve certainly seen her designs. The fashion designer is credited with creating the original Playboy bunny costume. The work of the trailblazing fashion designer/entrepreneur highlighted the coveted hour-glass figure in the 1940s and 1950s. In 1948, was the first Black designer to open up her own shop on Broadway. Valdes created gorgeous gowns many stars like Mae West, Joyce Bryant, Josephine Baker, Gladys Knight, Sarah Vaughan, Dorothy Dandridge, Ella Fitzgerald and countless others. Later in her life, she created costumes for the Dance Theater of Harlem, and Zelda Wynn Valdes also helped found the National Association of Fashion and Accessory Designers. She died in 2001 at age 96.

Check out some of her work.

Happy Black History Month! 

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Visit Original Link

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Lorraine Hansberry in her apartment in New York City, 1959

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Mood.

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Yes Lawd...

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Black is angelic, courageous, fearless & bold 

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New Music!!! 

https://soundcloud.com/jay-360663324/sets/nights-alone-pack

NIGHT'S ALONE PACK.

Featuring 1. ALL MY LIFE, 2. FAKE LOVE [INTERLUDE] & 3. MERI-GO 

“Alone...Maybe that's the best place to be, free from judgment, free from pressure, free from pain, but I guess that's only if... you don't judge&place unneeded pressure upon yourself.”

-With Love Jay.

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ITS LONG NIGHTS WHERE BEING ALONE FEELS LIKE A WAR...

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HANDLE WITH CARE IS AT 5,000+ STREAMS...THANK YOU TO ANYONE THAT SUPPORTED BY LISTENING STILL GROWING.

LOVE JAY,