NOIRMagazine “The Mock Up”

Semoria Mosley will use this magazine to inform, influence, inspire and entertain minorities while simultaneously exploring culture, news, architecture, food, fashion, interior design, minority community issues and arts of minority communities; also, the magazine shows minorities in job fields that they are under or non-represented in.

• “The (Black) Fashion Industry: It’s Like Taking Candy From a Baby”
        Notorious brands and figures in the fashion industry such as Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Fendi, FashionNOVA and the Kardashian Family have all contributed to stunting the growth of emerging designers. These brands and others of the same capacity have copied the designs of black independent designers; because America doesn’t have laws prohibiting brands from copying, big brands have been successful in doing so. Black designers have had to rely on social media and loyal consumers to remain credible and a float. This article is an opinion-editorial supported by research used to inform the masses on this problem.
• ” Tech Talk”
  Sammy Purewal is a software engineer at the popular media platform, Facebook. Being from a small town in South Carolina, he’s made great strides in his tech career. Currently in his 30’s, he came to Claflin to share the up’s and down’s of figuring out where to go in life. Through personal testimony, Purewal exposed minorities of what it takes to score the position their dreaming of. He informed students on how to come in and diversify the work place. This is an informative, news story on a Claflin University event. The event is a part of their Distinguished Lecture Series.
• “Coming to Black America”
  Those of African descent who live in America are politically labeled as African-Americans or black. Africans, who are born on the continent, are not labeled as black. Race is not an issue there, but tribe is. Ironically, black American’s can’t conclude what tribe he/she comes from. The history of Africans in America is something that all Africans are not aware of. Coming to America, for them, is a culture shock. Black America is indeed different from the United States. African’s learn this as they bring their culture, upbringing and way of life across waters. This is an informative article.  This article will contain a sidebar. The sidebar is a recipe.

Being that this is what I’ll be pursuing as a career, it is to be noted that in the future NOIR will be a published as a quarterly print magazine with correlation to our digital ‘zine. Stay tuned for more!

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