By Alexis Okeowo
Published April 20, 2021
When Harry Uzoka was 17, he went with his older brother, who was trying to get ahead in modeling, to a meeting at a talent agency in West London, a place of fairy-tale wealth with Edwardian homes and fertile parks. Uzoka grew up in Dagenham, a working-class neighborhood across the city with a growing Nigerian community. He and his brother were raised by a mother who, like other West African immigrants, traded her homeland for London cold and indifferent but also possessing free education and more jobs so that her children could thrive. Uzoka did well in school, but he had recently served a stint in juvenile detention for robbing a cash-delivery van.
January 11th, 2021 by KRNB
Tyler MitchellVice President-elect
Kamala Harris made her debut on the cover of
Vogue magazine’s February issue ahead of Inauguration Day, and already the image is prompting some backlash.
Vogue featured two cover images of Harris. One has her posing in front of a golden drape in a powder-blue power suit and pearls. She poses against pink and green drapery in the other, wearing a casual black blazer and Converse sneakers. The images were taken by
Tyler Mitchell, the first Black photographer to shoot an American
Vogue cover, and who shot
Beyoncé’s
Zendaya’s in 2019.
Though it might seem, in light of all that is going on currently in Washington, D.C., the least of the matter, on Sunday a leaked shot of Vice President-elect Kamala D. Harris’s Vogue cover set off an unexpected firestorm. February’s issue features Ms. Harris in a dark jacket by Donald Deal, skinny pants, Converse and her trademark pearls. She stands against a leaf green backdrop bisected by a spill of pink curtain, colors meant to evoke her.