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PHOTOS: Best-Dressed Stars At TIME 100 Gala

Huffington Post | Julee Wilson | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Time 100, Rihanna, Kristen Wiig, Video, Time Magazine, Bv-Fashion-Beauty, B. Michael, B-Michael, TIME 100 Gala, Time 100 Gala 2012, Tyra Banks, Cecily Tyson, Time 100 List, Slidepollajax, Black Voices News

The stars were out and shining at the 2012 TiME 100 gala on Tuesday night in New York City. Model-turned-mogul Tyra Banks and "Good Girl Gone Bad"...

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The Peculiar Limits of Black Society in New York

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Socialite, Journalist, Maggie Betts, Dale Dobson, Dr. Joyce Brown and Carl McCall, Emil Wilbekin, Cheryl Riley, Courtney Sloane, The E. T. Williamses, Ludget Delcy, Mr. And Mrs. Spike Lee, The Adairs, Michael Mccollom, Erana Stennett, Moises De La Renta, Willard Winter, Eula Johnson, Nancy Lane, Social Activist, Kirk Shannon Butts, Susan Taylor, The Governor and Mrs. Patterson, Kehinde Wiley, Photographer, David Patrick Columbia, David Levering Lewis, Evelyn Cunningham, Audrey Smaltz, Thelma Golden, Rachel Roy, Alma and Charlie Rangel, Michaela Angela Davis, Curtis Quentin Phelps, Mary Schmidt Campbell, Jason Campbell, Norma Darden, Kim Heirston, Ruth Ann Stewart, Sheila Bridges, New York Times, Joyce Mullins-Jackson, The Cosbys, Cordelle Cleare, Rene Cox, Ray Alexander Minter, Stanley Crouch, Back Designer, Bonnie Morrison, The Chenaults, Montgomery, President Obama, Tamara and Greg Tunie, Malcolm Harris, The Dinkinses, Gordon Chambers, Pam and Bill Perkins, Rainbow Room, Genève Jones, Aubrey Lynch, Society, G. Winston James, B. Michael, Lana Turner, Audrey J. Bernard, Harriet Cole, Henry Mitchell, Michelle Obama, Writers, Mr. And Mrs. Chris Rock, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Lowery Stokes Sims, Anthony Bryant, Famous, Clarence Haynes, Sherry Bronfman, The Redheads, Dancers, Nicola Vassell, Tyson Perez, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, Marc Baptist, Kevin Bright, Phyllis Briley. Rocky Baron Boler, Tastemakers, Lou Willard, Town and Country, Susan Fales-Hill, Robin Bell Stevens, Artist, George Faison, The Alvin Ailey Dance Company, Gordon Davis, Hip Hop; Deitch Gallery, Reginald Van Lee, Stephen Burrows, New York News
Michael Henry Adams

Is there really such a thing as 'black society'? Many people certainly used to think so! Imagine, today we have one African American president and ...

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Evidence Dance Company's Silver Ball at the Plaza

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mrs Donald Trump, Landmarks, Michelle Patterson, Karen Martin, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Reggie-Van-Lee, Lynn Whitfield, Cheryl Riley, Courtney Sloane, Gordon Chambers, Myrna Colley-Lee, Deepa Pakianathan, Muse Records, Malaika Adero, Sharon Luckman, Shirley Marcus Allen, Sharon Baum, The Plaza Hotel, Teresa Savory, The New York Times, Damon Caldwell, Mike Muse, The Silver Ball, Marilyn Booken, Dennis Brownlee, Marion Burnside, New York, Dawn Davis, Paul Shapiro, B. Michael, Evidence Dance Company, Jenifer Holiday, Hatti Dixon, Reggie and Gillian Canal, Domna Stanton, Loida Nicolas Lewis, Gail Munroe-Perry, Ronald K. Brown, Judith Jamison, Ella Fitzgerald, Marian Anderson, Sarah Vaughan, Gladys Knight.nat King Cole, Zelda Wynn Valdez, Dorothy Dandridge, Jessye Norman, New York News
Michael Henry Adams

Unfortunate alterations, made by the former Mrs. Donald Trump, remain intact at the Hotel Plaza. Even so, for a party there's no more special place so redolent of elegance and festivity.

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Meet the Black Elite!

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Henry Adams

That the charity of New York's best events is secondary, even insignificant, in contrast to the stylishness of those in attendance, is a 'dirty secret' that's routinely denied.

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