Archive for Know the Ledge
Chairman Fred Hampton & Chairman Fred Hampton Jr.
Last year I designed a key piece for the Prohibit Winter 2009 line. The garment was called the Prohibit Resistance Stadium Jacket. The Jacket was inspired by a vintage Military Varsity piece , that highlighted various cities of battle during WWII. Being as though we are inspired by resistance movements, I decided that our piece [...]
Read more#negus vs. #niggaz
So, I was having a debate yesterday on Twitter about what word offends white people as much as the word NIGGER offends black people. After reading some hilarious comments it became abundantly clear to me that we give way to much validity to words we have no real knowledge of. Think about it, English is [...]
Read moreHappy Born Day…Brother Malcolm
The Honorable El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz manifested himself in several different forms of us. Malcolm Little, represented all of our roots in the South. Detroit Red, represented the hustler, struggling to find his way in Americas metropolitan maze, the physical personification of the next phase…Malcolm X, the national spokesman for The Honorable Elijah Muhammad and a [...]
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