HOMECOMING

ANOK YAI returns to HOWARD UNIVERSITY, where she was discovered as a model. It’s a sacred space that CAPTURES the best of the AMERICAN SPIRIT and the RELENTLESS DRIVE toward FREEDOM.

Story by KAITLYN GREENIDGE

It was like a scene out of a movie. Yashua Simmons, the stylist for this shoot, was a senior in high school when he visited the Howard University campus in Washington, D.C., with his mother in the early 2000s. “There was a Black girl, short hair. She reminded me of my sister,” he says. “She ran across the street. She had on this little denim pencil skirt and a white T-shirt, and as she ran across the street, I saw that on the back of her skirt, it said D&G on the pocket. I turned to my mom and I said, ‘I’m going here.’ ” Simmons laughs as he recalls the story. “It sounds superficial.” But it isn’t. Not really. The young woman Simmons saw was a vision of his…

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