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Listen to our 2022 BHM Shoe-In Episodes on the way forward in footwear featuring Converse's Brandis Russell, Tamara Odom, and Brodrick Foster, Sneaker Strategist, Consultant & Designer Jazerai Allen-Lord, and Pensole Founder Dr. D'Wayne Edwards. listen here
The Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America (FDRA) and PENSOLE Lewis College of Business & Design, cofounders of the African American Footwear Forum (AAFF), have announced the rebranding of the AAFF to the Black Footwear Forum (BFF) effective immediately. The new name will strengthen and better represent the thousands of black footwear professionals and employees who work, thrive, and create in the footwear industry today. read more
The Lewis College of Business, a Detroit-based historically Black college and university founded by the late Violet T. Lewis, closed in 2013. Edwards, who is now the school’s controlling stockholder, is reopening its doors and transforming the closed institution into the country’s first HBCU to focus on design. read more
Our encounters and interactions with others are full of small behaviors that send messages to others, but are they the messages we mean to send? In this session we will talk about the difference between equity and equality, the role of privilege in how we see the world, and how we message equity to others in small behaviors called microaggressions. watch now
In what has been cast as an unprecedented moment for the footwear industry, dozens of African-American professionals from across the shoe sector convened at Howard University in Washington, D.C., for the inaugural African American Footwear Forum. read more
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