A Salute to Ebony Fashion with Tanisha C. Ford
Join us on March 22, from 7-9 pm at Two River Theater, for this Fashion Retrospective and fundraiser with special guest, Tanisha Ford, author of Our Secret Society, Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power behind the Civil Rights Movement. Ford, who is an influencer, was named to Root Magazine’s list of 100 Most Influential African Americans.
A Salute to Ebony Magazine, which was first published in 1945 by Johnson Publishing Company. Its founder, John Johnson, gave the Black community a magazine that rivaled the sleekness of “Look” and “Life” Magazines. While his wife, Eunice, created its traveling Haute Couture fashion show aptly called Ebony Fashion Fair. It was an extravaganza in the Black community, much like the fashion buzz of energy that is associated with The Met Gala.
ABOUT TANISHA C. FORD
Tanisha C. Ford
Tanisha C. Ford is an accomplished writer, researcher, and cultural critic—working at the intersection of politics and culture. She has forged an international reputation for her groundbreaking research on the history of Black style/fashion and social movements. Tanisha was honored as one of The Root’s 100 Most Influential African Americans. She is currently Professor of History at The Graduate Center, CUNY, where she teaches courses on African American and African diaspora history, biography and memoir, and the geopolitics of fashion. And, she is also a co-founder and the director of TEXTURES, a pop-up material culture lab, studying global Black migration through objects.