GRIOTS REPUBLIC - AN URBAN BLACK TRAVEL MAG - OCTOBER 2016
In the October Issue of Griots Republic we cover GLOBAL DESIGN! From interior to sound design we plug into the subjects that interest urban travelers. Black Travel Profiles include: Brooklyn Circus Founder, Ouigi Theodor. Up In Air Life Founder, Claire Soares. Fashion Influencer, Jason Andrew and Blogger A.V Perkins of A.V Does What. This issue also includes interviews with International D.J., DJ Super Nova and street artist and designer Jerry Gant. This is Black Travel!
In the October Issue of Griots Republic we cover GLOBAL DESIGN! From interior to sound design we plug into the subjects that interest urban travelers. Black Travel Profiles include: Brooklyn Circus Founder, Ouigi Theodor. Up In Air Life Founder, Claire Soares. Fashion Influencer, Jason Andrew and Blogger A.V Perkins of A.V Does What. This issue also includes interviews with International D.J., DJ Super Nova and street artist and designer Jerry Gant. This is Black Travel!
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“I had absolutely<br />
no role model. I’m<br />
happy today to be<br />
a role model for<br />
others that follow.”<br />
work. Although the number of black<br />
women architects has quadrupled in the<br />
last 15 years., that total number is still<br />
a low 196, representing only 0.2 percent<br />
of approximately 91,000 licensed<br />
architects.<br />
Referred to as the “Rosa Parks of Architecture”,<br />
Sklarak died in 2012 from<br />
heart failure. But her legacy is evident,<br />
from the 29-story Fox Plaza in San Francisco<br />
to the Norma Merrick Sklarek Architectural<br />
Scholarship Award offered<br />
at HBCU, Howard University. Without a<br />
role model of her own, she managed to<br />
blaze a trail.<br />
“Until the end of World War II, I think<br />
there was strong discrimination against<br />
women in architecture. The schools had<br />
a quota, it was obvious, a quota against<br />
women and a quota against blacks. In<br />
architecture, I had absolutely no role<br />
model. I’m happy today to be a role<br />
model for others that follow,” Sklarek<br />
said.<br />
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Alexis Barnes is a multimedia freelance<br />
journalist currently working in development<br />
in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. She holds<br />
journalism degrees from Howard University<br />
and the City of New York Graduate<br />
School of Journalism (CUNY). Her<br />
work reveals her passion for sustainability<br />
and technology in developing nations,<br />
social justice, women and gender<br />
issues. Alexis has also reported from<br />
Zambia, Belgium, Kenya, South Korea<br />
and Tanzania. She has worked with<br />
Vice, Al Jazeera English in the United<br />
Nations bureau, Africa Times and Norwegian<br />
publication, Bistandsaktuelt.<br />
You can find her work on www.alexiskbarnes.com<br />
or blogging at kurlsandkimchi.com.
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