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Meet Ahmrii: Parsons Fashion Design Student, Now Emerging Black Hair Braiding Business Owner

Ahmrii Johnson braids a strand of braiding hair. Photo by Andrew Orellana.

Inside the walls of Kerrey Hall on the 13th floor, New School student Ahmrii Johnson took out a pack of Kanekalon braiding hair and measured it against the…

“We’re Connected Like Constellations in Space” The Black Imagination: Black Artists’ Launch Party

Reggae band, Dawit and The Tom Toms, finish the night with a performance and ask the audience to put their hands in the air. Photos by Andrew Orellana.

“The Black Imagination: Black Artists’ Launch Party” opened on February 29th in celebration of the exhibit’s opening. The Black Student Union’s first public event featured and celebrated Black…

The Hidden Gem of The New School: The Orozco Room

José Clemente Orozco, "Science, Labor and Art", 1930-31, fresco. Part of José Clemente Orozco's "Call to Revolution and Table of Universal Brotherhood", section depicting laborers. Photos provided by the New School Art Collection.

Rumor has it that if you hang around the Lang hallways long enough you will eventually find your way in one of the hidden gems of The New…

Fitting In Without Fitting In

BAFA student recounted an instance where a student complimented her for the Swan Neck splints she wears to keep her fingers from hyper flexing due to her diagnosis.

Isabela Coppel, a freshman at Eugene Lang, sat in the chair of a cafe with her elbows rested on the table in front of her, attentive both with…

The Elephant In The Room

I am in the back of the classroom with my palm covering my face, avoiding all eye contact, hoping and waiting for this conversation to end. Yet another…

Culture and Race at Parsons

Valentino's Spring 2016 collection faced much backlash for appropriating African culture while using a cast of predominately white models. The brand used the Maasai people of Kenya in their ad campaign. Collage by Allie Griffin

Kaitlin Kimbro, a junior in fashion design at Parsons, was listening to a peer present a trend report on “natural hair” in her Fashion Industry course in Spring…