Zac Baldwin is an award-winning filmmaker and author of not one but two novels. He is the co-founder of the Artemis Women In Action Film Festival, which is going on now! Kaylene Peoples interviews him about Artemis’ first streaming festival with 50 incredible films, women-powered music, and more. Zac talks […]
Kaylene Peoples has a conversation with the author of With Her Fist Raised: Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the Transformative Power of Black Community Activism. Laura Lovett is a professor, historian, and author, and her newest book is featured in Agenda Collector’s Issue 2021: Changemakers! With Her Fist Raised peers into the […]
Kaylene Peoples has a conversation with Bryon Lars as he talks about his career as a fashion designer, his background, how he got started, and the celebrities he’s dressed. Designing for Barbie collectibles for Mattel was also a big part of his career and they discuss that, too. This is […]
Kaylene Peoples interviews Kevan Hall, co-founder and the new president of the Black Design Collective. They chat about the fast-growing nonprofit and how the BDC has fared during Covid-19. There are many new exciting things on the horizon: new designers, and new opportunities. Kevan Hall, Octavius Terry-Sims, and new BDC […]
Kaylene Peoples interviews Melanie Wise about the 6th Edition of Artemis Women In Action Film Festival. A lot has changed but a lot has remained the same in 2021 for this groundbreaking festival that has brought us strong women characters in both film! “We’ve always done live events, brick and […]
The Artemis Women In Action Film Festival (AWIAFF) celebrates its 6th edition with a virtual film festival that continues its tradition of strong women characters. With official selections for narrative features, documentaries, shorts, screenplays, songs and compositions, the landscape of artistic work continues in the form of independent and unconstrained […]
Back in 2018 during, Agenda nodded to the history of fashion model trailblazers. This article ran in issue #4 for Black History Month. For once I was not considered Black, African American, or Negro. I was just an American. —Dorothea Church remembers her modeling career in Paris in the early […]
As we approach our 3rd month of social distancing, we thought we’d break the monotony and do something different for AGENDA’s mid-spring 2020 issue. With our second offering from The Fashion Whisperer, celebrity stylist Ty-Ron Mayes curated a colorful editorial titled “Dancing Queen” with dancer and Miss Puerto Rico 2018 […]
GENERATION QUARANTINE! is the title of the first editorial for The Fashion Whisperer curated by celebrity stylist Ty-Ron Mayes in the 12th print issue of Agenda. Editor-in-Chief Kaylene Peoples liked the title so much, she used the name for the issue with the cover model selected from that shoot. GENERATION QUARANTINE is […]
On Saturday, February 29th, 2020, on Leap Year, Kaylene Peoples performed a mind-blowing show “Romantic Bossa-Nova” at her official CD Release concert at Alvas Showroom in San Pedro, CA. The room was packed with jazz lovers who thoroughly enjoyed the two dynamic sets of music, surrounding herself with musicians who […]
