AphroChic Magazine: Issue No. 10
In this issue, we are beyond excited to share with you all of the things we spent the year working towards, starting with the official release of our brand new book. AphroChic: Celebrating the Legacy of the Black Family Home is the type of book we’ve always dreamed of writing. In this issue we give you a sneak peek into the pages of the book. This year AphroChic made its first foray into filmmaking with a 15 minute short documentary looking at the stories of Baltimore’s Black community as the nation continues to grapple with the COVID-19 crisis. Check out our look at Baltimore and the lessons it has for the rest of the country in this issue’s City Stories.
In this issue, we are beyond excited to share with you all of the things we spent the year working towards, starting with the official release of our brand new book. AphroChic: Celebrating the Legacy of the Black Family Home is the type of book we’ve always dreamed of writing. In this issue we give you a sneak peek into the pages of the book.
This year AphroChic made its first foray into filmmaking with a 15 minute short documentary looking at the stories of Baltimore’s Black community as the nation continues to grapple with the COVID-19 crisis. Check out our look at Baltimore and the lessons it has for the rest of the country in this issue’s City Stories.
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THE BLACK FAMILY HOME<br />
the ancestors themselves, connecting our stories to the stories that came<br />
before. Memory is where African American design starts.<br />
Because of how well it blends eras and aesthetics, African American<br />
design is strongly anti-thematic, valuing personal expression above all<br />
else. Like jazz improvisations or street style fashion, our design aesthetics<br />
are unique to each of us — a multitude of expressions connected through a<br />
variety of experiences that are shared but not identical. Within these experiences,<br />
home may be where we go to feel safe, welcome, and seen, but getting<br />
there has been difficult. Beginning with Emancipation — and even before<br />
— the African American journey to home has been a hard-fought road,<br />
and never a straight route. We have built communities that were burned or<br />
destroyed by white supremacists; owned land that was stolen or from which<br />
we were driven away; established legal protections against discriminatory<br />
practices, only to see those protections rolled back until today, resulting in<br />
the lowest rate of homeownership among African Americans since the 1960s.<br />
Nevertheless, our journey is etched into the history of America. Its peaks<br />
and valleys have come at some of this nation’s most crucial turning points.<br />
Because of that, it’s a useful way to measure the nation’s social, political, and<br />
economic steps, both forward and back. And yet, it’s a story that hasn’t really<br />
been told before now and it’s important to consider why. AC<br />
Get your copy of<br />
<strong>AphroChic</strong>: Celebrating the<br />
Legacy of the Black Family<br />
Home anywhere that<br />
books are sold.<br />
SPECIAL THANKS TO BERNHARDT,<br />
KOHLER, SHADE STORE, RESOURCE<br />
FURNITURE, PERIGOLD, CAMBRIA,<br />
FISHER & PAYKEL, FARROW & BALL,<br />
MITZI, POTTERY BARN, ARTICLE,<br />
AND TUFT & NEEDLE FOR THEIR<br />
PARTNERSHIP.<br />
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