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EXPRESS YO’SELF RVA Podcast 4 | ‘Black Boys Lost’ and the Power of Black Dandyism 🏳️‍🌈

by Jon Cope | COMMUNITY, CULTURE, FASHION, JUSTICE, PODCASTS, QUEER RVA

As the Metropolitan Museum Costume Institute Exhibition invites us to reflect on the term “Black Dandy” in this year’s exhibit, Superfine: Tailoring Black Style, if there’s ever been a time to make travel plans to see it, this is the one. On view from May 10 through...

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