FREE Your Passport to the Caribbean American Community Sept./Oct. 2017
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Hurricane Season hits Caribbean hard! By Aleia Roberts
Rihanna’s Fenty Beauty Line By Aleksandra Emmanuel
2017 has brought numerous breakthroughs in makeup, everything from glitter lipstick to burgundy mascara. However, none have revolutionized the industry quite like Rihanna Robyn Fenty’s new line Fenty Beauty. No other makeup line can match the variety found in Rihanna’s collection. Inclusivity is at the core of every one of the 40 foundations that have critics raving. Rihanna has been a household name since 2007, ten years later and she is still breaking barriers and shining her bold light on societal norms. Rihanna has ambushed society in a way no other artist has, she has given a solution. It is no secret that dark skinned women have difficulty finding foundation and powders to match their skin tone; it is something the fashion and makeup industries have ignored and pushed aside for decades. Rihanna has given dark, medium, light, and every shade in between an exact match; she has given the power back to diversity and is making sure it looks damn good in pictures. Fenty Beauty is a wakeup call, this is a boisterous scream that has turned the world of cosmetics upside down and has given them no other option than to change. Continued on page 14
More bad news for the islands of the Caribbean that recently rode out devastating Hurricane Irma: Hurricane Maria paid them a visit.
St. Martin Hurricane Irma hit the shared Dutch and French Caribbean Island as a Category 5 hurricane. It turned picturesque St. Martin into a mass of ripped metal and shattered wood. Residents have been left without power, water or communications. They have been left wondering if they should cling to an island that can barely support life or start over elsewhere? Barbuda “There’s not a single living person on the island of Barbuda — a civilization that has existed in that island for close to, over 300 years has now been extinguished. The damage is complete,” said Ronald Sanders, the Antigua and Barbuda ambassador to
the United States. Dominica Hurricane Maria caused massive damage to homes and buildings, washed out roads, upended water pipelines and left at least seven people dead in Dominica. Officials estimated that 70 to 80 percent of Dominica’s structures sustained storm damage, ranging from ripped-off roofs to near-total destruction. Puerto Rico The National Hurricane Center in Miami reported that Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico as a powerful Continued on Page 2