Kaylene Peoples interviews Melanie Wise about the 6th Edition of Artemis Women In Action Film Festival. A lot has changed but a lot has remained the same in 2021 for this groundbreaking festival that has brought us strong women characters in both film! “We’ve always done live events, brick and […]
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Artemis Women In Action Film Festival Goes Virtual and More for 2021
The Artemis Women In Action Film Festival (AWIAFF) celebrates its 6th edition with a virtual film festival that continues its tradition of strong women characters. With official selections for narrative features, documentaries, shorts, screenplays, songs and compositions, the landscape of artistic work continues in the form of independent and unconstrained […]
Fashion Trailblazers: Black History & the African American Model
Back in 2018 during, Agenda nodded to the history of fashion model trailblazers. This article ran in issue #4 for Black History Month. For once I was not considered Black, African American, or Negro. I was just an American. —Dorothea Church remembers her modeling career in Paris in the early […]
Fashion Whisperer, Episode2: Tyson Beckford and Kiara Liz
As we approach our 3rd month of social distancing, we thought we’d break the monotony and do something different for AGENDA’s mid-spring 2020 issue. With our second offering from The Fashion Whisperer, celebrity stylist Ty-Ron Mayes curated a colorful editorial titled “Dancing Queen” with dancer and Miss Puerto Rico 2018 […]
The Fashion Whisperer, Episode1: “GENERATION QUARANTINE”
GENERATION QUARANTINE! is the title of the first editorial for The Fashion Whisperer curated by celebrity stylist Ty-Ron Mayes in the 12th print issue of Agenda. Editor-in-Chief Kaylene Peoples liked the title so much, she used the name for the issue with the cover model selected from that shoot. GENERATION QUARANTINE is […]
AGENDA Feb/Mar 2020, Issue 11
Welcome to issue 11 as we move forward into 2020 with the February/March issue. On our cover, power couple Larry and Luisa Dunn of LDO are featured. We interview the original Earth, Wind & Fire keyboardist/composer Larry Dunn about his career in the article titled “The Man with the Sound.” […]
Embrace Your Differences” AGENDA ISSUE 10: JANUARY 2020
After launching our first print issue in 2014, we’ve put out two special editions and two collector’s issues; and for what seemed liked the popup magazine, a total of nine regular print issues from October 2017 through December 2019. For the New Year, we are proud to release Issue #10 […]
Guitarist and Jazz-Fusion Radio Host Tony Palkovic Leaves a Lasting Legacy
The jazz-fusion community mourns the loss of radio personality Tony Palkovic from KSPC Claremont 88.7 FM, who for 30 years hosted a unique radio show that featured legendary musicians, including Allan Holdsworth, Larry Coryell, Bunny Brunel, Joe Zawinul, Stanley Clarke, Brian Auger, and countless others. “Tony was a huge supporter […]
AGENDA Holiday 2019 Issue Features Pooja Batra, Holiday Movies, and more!
Happy holidays Agenda readers. This issue is filled with nourishment to feed the season. Issue 9 features three holiday movies: Abominable – a children’s animation; Black Christmas – a horror movie; and Last Christmas – a romance. Last Christmas was written by Emma Thompson, directed by Paul Feig, and inspired […]
Lea Thompson: Defying the Odds with Her SPECTACULAR Career
“I don’t believe when I was an ‘ingenue,’ that I ever got to say words that were written by a woman. It was always written by an older man, who imagined what a pretty girl wanted to talk about.” Lea Thompson is perhaps best known for her role as the […]









