President Obama
Since Barack Obama was elected president, only 10 percent of Americans believe that race relations have gotten better, according to a New York Times/CBS Poll published today.
The poll found 17 percent of blacks and 8 percent of whites believe race relations have improved under Obama.
Thirty five percent of Americans believe that race relations have gotten worse in the Obama era — including 40 percent of whites and 21 percent of blacks.
Fifty-two percent of Americans polled sa
Beverly Johnson on Vogue
Model agents told her she’d never make it, hairdressers refused to touch her hair and Kodak didn’t even make film that could cope with her skin tone, but somehow 40 years ago Beverly Johnson became the first black woman on the cover of American Vogue.
“You mean there’s never been a woman of colour on the cover of Vogue magazine? Are you kidding me? We’re in the 1970s.”
When Beverly Johnson found out that she’d made the August 1974 cover of the fashion bible she was ec
