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Ming Smith
Abyssenian Baptist Church, 1980
Vintage gelatin silver
7 × 5 in | 17.8 × 12.7 cm
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Erica Kennedy was a Music Writer turned Black Literature Author.
After receiving a bachelor’s degree in liberal arts from Sarah Lawrence College in 1992, Ms. Kennedy was a publicist for the Tommy Hilfiger fashion house and contributed articles on music to Vibe, InStyle and other magazines.
She published the 2004 New York Times Best-seller Bling. Erica Kennedy was moved to start work on the book, she later said, by the hoopla surrounding The Nanny Diaries, the 2002 novel by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus that lampooned Manhattan’s elite.
“Everybody kept talking about how scandalous that book was,” Kennedy told The New York Times in 2004. “I really didn’t see the big deal. I knew I could write a story about a P. Diddy party and show these people what scandal is really all about.”
In 2012, she was found dead in her Miami home at 42.
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