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Kalisha Buckhanon

Kalisha Buckhanon's acclaimed novels are UPSTATE, CONCEPTION, SOLEMN and SPEAKING OF SUMMER with essays, stories and articles published widely since 2000. She has been a true crime commentator for BET, ID Channel and TV One. She loves culture, books, movies, vegetarian food, live music, theater and teaching all things language arts with students from preschool to college to senior ages, including a year teaching English to foreigners in Midtown Manhattan. Visit her anytime at Kalisha.com or her creative services home negression.com.

When Candles Are Art They Are the Baobab Collection

Your African-European fusion Father’s Day or any day gift and experience is on Bleeker Street with Baobab Collection’s decorative candles and more.  Each object is unique and takes you into an olfactory…

Denise Nicholas On Beauty, Fashion and Style

Denise looks back on her style journey in the light of her new memoir, Finding Home (Agate/Bolden, 2025). “I look at designers then select things from all over the place. No set…

Start Your Black History Year with Black Women Founders

Jewelry made of safety pins, curl definer you’re tempted to nibble, grown and sexy convos and media, a good old-fashioned headband… These are brilliant Black Aunties’ gifts to us for this culture…

Books for the Season from Beauty News NYC

Gift yourself or the bibliophiles in your life one of these best recent fashion, fiction, memoir and culture books this holiday season. I must have been a bear in another life. The…