Brown Sista

The 10th season of America’s Next Top Model starts tonight and Tyra Banks appeared on the CW Mornning Show to talk about what the new season has in store. Besides moving to New York Tyra says fans should expect more complicated challenges and of course a lot more drama. You can check out the interview here and some exclusive pics from the interview are above.
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Tyra Banks is gracing the latest cover of Entertainment Weekly and the magazine has graciously crowned her “America’s Next Top Mogul”. Yeah, I know that’s corny- but with two hit television shows and another possibly on the way- EW may be on to something. Tyra’s latest venture, A “Devil Wears Prada” type reality show, gives assistants a chance to possibly run a fashion magazine on their own. In each episode, the contestants will take on individual and a team challenges- which will involve creating a page for a mockup of the proposed magazine. The losing team’s page will be dumped, and one member will be eliminated with the winning team’s page included in “The Book.” The winner of the show will land a job in the fashion industry and possibly become assistant editors at a “real” fashion magazine.
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With all the Superbowl hoopla going on I almost forgot that Fashion Week in New York City’s Bryany Park was in full swing. Every February designer’s from around the globe converge on the city to showcase their fall fashion collections. One of the most popular showings is Kimora Lee Simmons’ Baby Phat line, which is alaways heavily attended by celebrity sistas. This year was no different as Tyra Banks, Vivica Fox, and Amerie were just a few of the ladies who showed up to see what Baby Phat had to offer for the Fall of 2008.
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Essence Magazine Honors Its February 2008 Cover Model Tyra Banks. Among those in attendance, was of course Tyra herself, the absolutely stunning Yaya Da Costa, actress Lyn Whitfiled and singer Cheri Dennis.
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For Cycle 10 of her hit show “America’s Next Top Model”, Tyra Banks makes the move to New York and a sneak peak of the new commercial advertising the new season, which starts February 20th, can be seen below. Tyra also shows her support of Miss Jackson by using Janet’s new single “Feedback” in the promo and the song fits perfectly. Check it out !
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Alicia Keys, Maxine Waters and Tyra Banks were among the top achievers in entertainment, business and politics who were honored at the first ever BET Honors gala. The ceremony was held tonight at Washington, D.C.’s Warner Theatre and will air on Feb. 22nd as part of the network’s Black History Month programming. Other notable Brown Sista to also show up for the festivities included actresses Vivica Fox and Kerry Washington- as well as singer Keyshia Cole.
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I’ll admit it- I haven’t really paid much attention to Tyra Banks in years and don’t really watch either of her television shows. Still, Tyra is Brown Sista Icon and so when she does something noteworthy I am more than happy to showcase it here. Such is the case with Tyra covering the February 2008 edition of Essence Magazine. And it is not so much Tyra landing the cover, something she done twice previously, but rather what she talks about in her interview with Jeannine Turner. It seems Tyra is none to happy with the opportunities for Black women in Hollywood and is poised to do something about it. After reading December’s issue of Essence with Sanaa Lathan, Gabrielle Union and Nia Long, Tyra said “It really upset me to read about how the money they make doesn’t match up.” In fact, after reading that article, she phoned her mother at 5:30 in the morning and announced, “Ma, I have a new calling.” So now Tyra, who is the Executive Producer of not one but two television shows and who recently inked a multi-year development deal with Warner Bros. Entertainment, may actually be in a position to turn things around for Black women in Hollywood- and is making plans as we speak to do just that.
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