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Egos Without Borders

Mapping the New Celebrity Philanthropy
Egos Without Borders
Article by Summer Wood, appeared in issue Green; published in 2007; filed under Social commentary; tagged activism, Africa, celebrities, charity, philanthropy.

You can’t turn on the television or flip open a magazine these days without encountering an image of a star promoting his or her latest cause célèbre: Oprah handing out makeup kits at a women’s hospital in Ethiopia; Angelina Jolie visiting refugee camps (alone or with Brad Pitt); George Clooney zipping around in his tiny electric car and making speeches about Darfur; Jay-Z and Kofi Annan holding a press conference about global water issues; Madonna performing concerts against a backdrop image of aids orphans—and, more recently, bringing a motherless Malawian boy home with her after making a large donation to his orphanage.

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When Tyra Met Naomi

Race, Fashion, and Rivalry
When Tyra Met Naomi
Article by Hawa Allan, Illustrated by Caitlin Kuhwald, appeared in issue Green; published in 2007; filed under Social commentary; tagged competition, fashion, fashion models, media, race, tv.

One of the last places I expected to hear an engaging antiracist and feminist critique of the fashion industry was on The Tyra Banks Show. But on a January 2006 episode, there was Banks, sitting couch-to-couch with supposed arch­nemesis and fellow supermodel Naomi Campbell, discussing the forces that years ago had pitted the two women against each other on the assumption that America had room for only one black top model.

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