Issue No. 19
Our Spring 2025 issue is filled with inspiring stories that show our creativity, ingenuity and soul as a people. On the cover, we feature Ashley Robinson of 12amsunshine. The Oakland-based botanic artist is one of 24 floral creatives featured in Teresa Speight’s new book Black Flora: Inspiring Profiles of Floriculture’s New Vanguard, tracing the important history of Black horticulture through the contemporary work of some of its biggest innovators. In City Stories we take you to Zanzibar, to Mji Mkongwe, the Stone City, once the seat of a powerful sultanate whose history stretches from the beginnings of the Silk Road to the end of British colonial rule, and its current status as part of Tanzania. We explore the city’s amazing culture, architecture, and food, along with a few annual festivals you’ll want to catch. Cameroonian designer Imane Ayissi is teaching us something new this issue, merging his African heritage with Parisian chic in a stunning reimagining of haute couture fashion. Meanwhile, we take a look at Taraji P. Henson’s first foray into food and wine, an effervescent new moscato with Italian vintner Seven Daughters. We’ll also take a tour of Ethiopian American artist Julie Mehretu’s fantastically surreal home — a refashioned rectory filled with color, pattern, and vision. In Black Family Home we begin a multi-part series looking at Tropical Modernism — the late-to-post colonial architecture style that began in British colonial Africa before sweeping to places like Brazil, Sri Lanka, and Hawaii. Exploring its roots in older colonial architecture, built as physical manifestations of white supremacist ideologies, Tropical Modernism sheds intriguing new light on the narrative power of built environments while evoking familiar parallels to America today. And in Sounds we have music that will lift your soul, celebrating the new album from esperanza spalding — Milton + Esperanza, an intergenerational feat, featuring two of the best jazz artists of our time. And finally, we introduce you to AphroChic Home - our new home furnishings collection that celebrates the legacies of Black design, art and artisanship across the African Diaspora.
Our Spring 2025 issue is filled with inspiring stories that show our creativity, ingenuity and soul as a people. On the cover, we feature Ashley Robinson of 12amsunshine. The Oakland-based botanic artist is one of 24 floral creatives featured in Teresa Speight’s new book Black Flora: Inspiring Profiles of Floriculture’s New Vanguard, tracing the important history of Black horticulture through the contemporary work of some of its biggest innovators. In City Stories we take you to Zanzibar, to Mji Mkongwe, the Stone City, once the seat of a powerful sultanate whose history stretches from the beginnings of the Silk Road to the end of British colonial rule, and its current status as part of Tanzania. We explore the city’s amazing culture, architecture, and food, along with a few annual festivals you’ll want to catch. Cameroonian designer Imane Ayissi is teaching us something new this issue, merging his African heritage with Parisian chic in a stunning reimagining of haute couture fashion. Meanwhile, we take a look at Taraji P. Henson’s first foray into food and wine, an effervescent new moscato with Italian vintner Seven Daughters. We’ll also take a tour of Ethiopian American artist Julie Mehretu’s fantastically surreal home — a refashioned rectory filled with color, pattern, and vision. In Black Family Home we begin a multi-part series looking at Tropical Modernism — the late-to-post colonial architecture style that began in British colonial Africa before sweeping to places like Brazil, Sri Lanka, and Hawaii. Exploring its roots in older colonial architecture, built as physical manifestations of white supremacist ideologies, Tropical Modernism sheds intriguing new light on the narrative power of built environments while evoking familiar parallels to America today. And in Sounds we have music that will lift your soul, celebrating the new album from esperanza spalding — Milton + Esperanza, an intergenerational feat, featuring two of the best jazz artists of our time. And finally, we introduce you to AphroChic Home - our new home furnishings collection that celebrates the legacies of Black design, art and artisanship across the African Diaspora.
Our Spring 2025 issue is filled with inspiring stories that show our creativity, ingenuity and soul as a people. On the cover, we feature Ashley Robinson of 12amsunshine. The Oakland-based botanic artist is one of 24 floral creatives featured in Teresa Speight’s new book Black Flora: Inspiring Profiles of Floriculture’s New Vanguard, tracing the important history of Black horticulture through the contemporary work of some of its biggest innovators. In City Stories we take you to Zanzibar, to Mji Mkongwe, the Stone City, once the seat of a powerful sultanate whose history stretches from the beginnings of the Silk Road to the end of British colonial rule, and its current status as part of Tanzania. We explore the city’s amazing culture, architecture, and food, along with a few annual festivals you’ll want to catch. Cameroonian designer Imane Ayissi is teaching us something new this issue, merging his African heritage with Parisian chic in a stunning reimagining of haute couture fashion. Meanwhile, we take a look at Taraji P. Henson’s first foray into food and wine, an effervescent new moscato with Italian vintner Seven Daughters. We’ll also take a tour of Ethiopian American artist Julie Mehretu’s fantastically surreal home — a refashioned rectory filled with color, pattern, and vision. In Black Family Home we begin a multi-part series looking at Tropical Modernism — the late-to-post colonial architecture style that began in British colonial Africa before sweeping to places like Brazil, Sri Lanka, and Hawaii. Exploring its roots in older colonial architecture, built as physical manifestations of white supremacist ideologies, Tropical Modernism sheds intriguing new light on the narrative power of built environments while evoking familiar parallels to America today. And in Sounds we have music that will lift your soul, celebrating the new album from esperanza spalding — Milton + Esperanza, an intergenerational feat, featuring two of the best jazz artists of our time. And finally, we introduce you to AphroChic Home - our new home furnishings collection that celebrates the legacies of Black design, art and artisanship across the African Diaspora.
Additional Details
US Letter, 8.5” W × 11” H
112 Pages
Spring Issue 2025
