Aphrochic Magazine: Issue No. 7
For our Summer 2021 issue, we have an issue full of color, life and all of the things that make our Diaspora beautiful. For our cover story, we are thrilled to sit down with one of our favorite folks in fashion, the amazing Charles Harbison. After a 5-year hiatus and a cross-country jump from New York to Los Angeles, Charles is back with the much-anticipated return of his eponymous fashion line, HARBISON. We also sit down with the iconic Dyana Williams. A legend of the Philadelphia radio scene that we grew up on, she’s better known outside the city as the mother of Black Music Month. We sat down with Dyana to talk about Black music, the newly opened National Museum of African American Music and the artists on her playlist that she feels are doing the most for the culture. In our Hot Topic, AphroChic contributor Ruby Brown takes an incisive look at Pride, all that the LGBTQIA+ community has accomplished and all that’s left to do. And in response to the growing debate over Critical Race Theory, which in the last months has taken over news feeds and legislative floors alike, we take a break from our ongoing discussion of the African Diaspora to offer a brief exploration of CRT, it’s origins, it’s concepts and why it seems to have everyone so upset. Throw in some amazing art from THE CONSTANT NOW gallery in Antwerp, inspirational words from author Alexandra Elle, and the latest updates from the outdoor spaces at the AphroFarmhouse and we think this issue will have you ready for the summer season.
For our Summer 2021 issue, we have an issue full of color, life and all of the things that make our Diaspora beautiful. For our cover story, we are thrilled to sit down with one of our favorite folks in fashion, the amazing Charles Harbison. After a 5-year hiatus and a cross-country jump from New York to Los Angeles, Charles is back with the much-anticipated return of his eponymous fashion line, HARBISON. We also sit down with the iconic Dyana Williams. A legend of the Philadelphia radio scene that we grew up on, she’s better known outside the city as the mother of Black Music Month. We sat down with Dyana to talk about Black music, the newly opened National Museum of African American Music and the artists on her playlist that she feels are doing the most for the culture.
In our Hot Topic, AphroChic contributor Ruby Brown takes an incisive look at Pride, all that the LGBTQIA+ community has accomplished and all that’s left to do. And in response to the growing debate over Critical Race Theory, which in the last months has taken over news feeds and legislative floors alike, we take a break from our ongoing discussion of the African Diaspora to offer a brief exploration of CRT, it’s origins, it’s concepts and why it seems to have everyone so upset.
Throw in some amazing art from THE CONSTANT NOW gallery in Antwerp, inspirational words from author Alexandra Elle, and the latest updates from the outdoor spaces at the AphroFarmhouse and we think this issue will have you ready for the summer season.
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Sounds<br />
music has lost or gained? What message would you like to give to<br />
those who are coming up in music now about why their work is<br />
important to the community?<br />
DW: Black music is a constantly evolving energy entity.<br />
First, because Black people are not monolithic. There are some<br />
people who are critical of Hip Hop and some of its imagery. That<br />
has always existed. When Chuck Berry and Little Richard came<br />
out, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, a Black woman coming out of the<br />
church in Philadelphia, playing rock and roll and the electric<br />
guitar — parents were clutching their pearls. <strong>No</strong>w a lot of people<br />
are saying that R&B is dead. It’s not dead. It’s being reimagined<br />
by young people of this time. And we shouldn’t be so critical and<br />
negative about it because it's not what we are accustomed to.<br />
Instead, the question is how do we celebrate these young artists,<br />
how do we applaud them and support them? I love this generation<br />
of artists. I love the creativity that exists. Some people are<br />
really super talented. And then you've got those that are not so<br />
much but still get hit records because they have their finger on<br />
the pulse of dance or styling or some of those other elements that<br />
people are attracted to.<br />
I’ll say one more thing. I’m on the board of the National<br />
Museum of African American Music in Nashville, Tennessee. It's a<br />
museum 22 years in the making. It's 56,000-square-feet of seven<br />
galleries that take us from the 1600s all the way up to right now.<br />
It is incredible, and I want to encourage people to come, visit and<br />
become members (we have all levels of membership). This is a<br />
museum for us, by us and it is an amazing, beautiful institution<br />
that celebrates music and culture, America's indigenous music,<br />
our soundtrack to our lives. You can learn more about us at<br />
blackmusicmuseum.com or nmaam.org. AC<br />
AphroChic Black Music <strong>No</strong>w Playlist<br />
Curated by Dyana Williams<br />
Pick Up Your Feelings, Jazmine Sullivan<br />
Leave the Door Open, Silk Sonic: R&B duo composed of Bruno Mars and Anderson.Paak.<br />
Mystery Lady, Masego<br />
Overgrown , Joyce Wrice<br />
Don’t Keep Me Waiting, Kwesi Arthur (featuring Kidi)<br />
Damage, H.E.R.<br />
Sementes, Rael, Negra Li<br />
Hold Me Close, Kelontae Gavin<br />
Sorry Don’t Work <strong>No</strong> More, Brittney Spencer<br />
Write Your Own Bible, Idia Gamble<br />
Listen to the full playlist on AphroChic’s Spotify<br />
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