My Pretty Breakfast @ My Messy Desk: A Case Study (Taken with instagram)

Today’s Passionista XO: 

divalocity:

Ayan Elmi is definitely making an impact. Keep your eyes wide open!

Three African American women at the state fair, ph. Frances Benjamin Johnston, ca. 1903

Today’s Patron Bombshell: Viola Davis!

“No matter what, people don’t think of me for glamorous parts. I’ll go to an audition or a meeting in a pretty dress, and they still think of me as depressed or embattled. Hopefully, that will change.”
Viola Davis

impsychotic:

Zuhair Murad Haute Couture S/S 12

Hey Rockstars! Join me tonight 8-9 pm EST for this fun tweet chat for Essence Magazine. xoxo [info link: http://www.essence.com/2012/01/26/twitter-party-lets-talk-about-spicing-things-up]

In a phone call from the Capitol immediately after the State of the Union address last night, President Obama informs John Buchanan that his daughter Jessica, a kidnapped aid worker, was rescued by U.S. Special Operations Forces in Somalia earlier that evening. 

Official White House photo by Pete Souza

Ah, love! 

A midair courtship: Tuskegee’s historic love story…

Tuskegee, Alabama (CNN) — Herbert Carter and Mildred Hemmons had no time for dating in the early months of 1942.

He was training to become a member of the Tuskegee Airmen, the nation’s first military program for African-American pilots.

She was the bold, daring woman who caught his eye. At 18, she’d become the first black woman in Alabama to earn a pilot’s license. She had hopes of becoming a military pilot, too.

Flying was intoxicating. It provided Herbert and Mildred a sense of freedom — to be themselves, to dream big. The in-your-face racism of the segregated South was gone, if only for a while. In the air, the sky was literally the limit… [more]

• Herbert Carter, Mildred Hemmons courted during his Tuskegee cadet training
• She was the first female black pilot in Alabama
• He was among original 33 Tuskegee pilots, eventually rose to lieutenant colonel
• Married nearly 70 years, the two were known as Tuskegee’s “first couple”