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How a 1970s make-do-and-mend attitude resonates now

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By Adedoyin Adeniji Verified
| BBC Verified
Nigeria's inspiring "slow fashion" culture, from the traditional "obioma", or mobile tailor, to creative, small-batch design. "Ding, ding, ding," the sound of shears hitting a sewing machine would go, followed closely by a voice calling "obioma, oh". This is how Nigerian mobile tailors, or obiomas, as they became fondly and popularly called, would signal to customers that they were in their neighborhoods ready to do alterations. Obiomas became a mainstay of Nigerian life in the 1970s.
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Only Murders in the Building exemplifies the lies in 'true' crime

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By Adedoyin Adeniji Verified, Bria Massey
| Scalawag Verified
These reviews are a part of pop justice, Scalawag's newsletter exploring the intersection of popular culture and justice—namely through abolition. Sign up here. There are plenty of reasons to wonder why Americans are so obsessed with true crime. Theories about this obsession abound on the internet. Some people suggest it's due to a fear of our own safety and desire to protect ourselves. Others posit true crime is simply entertaining—a guilty pleasure of some sort.
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3 Emerging Black Designers Changing The Conversation In 2022

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By Adedoyin Adeniji Verified
| The Zoe Report Verified
What makes fashion exciting for many in-the-know shoppers is the discovery of new brands and new designers. Prior to social media, reading up on fashion week, award show red carpets, or the Met Gala were some of the ways the public discovered new brands. However, these occasions often lacked diversity. In the last years, 2020 in particular, the fashion industry has instituted changes committed to supporting emerging Black designers materially and structurally.
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