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Toussaint Louverture Inspires Liberator Clothing Line




BlackMarketWares Releases Toussaint Louverture Liberator T-Shirt



Toussaint Louverture Liberator T-shirt
More than Two-Hundred years after his death in France, Toussaint Louverture is not only inspiring books, but fashion. Cultural marketing guru Marc Maxis and Theod Elien of the lifestyle community organization BlackMarketWares—worked together for a year to create The Liberator T-shirt. The creative duo contend that they wanted to honor the trail-blazing leader, and they wanted to do so with a fashion tribute, and they sought out Queens-based painter Theo the Mighty for the visuals. Maxis and Elien were born born in Haiti and spent their early years there before moving to the United States at the age of seven. In addition to fashion endeavors, the entrepreneurs hold a youth basketball tournament through their program I Am Peace, held at Jackie Robinson Park annually and designed to spread and prevent gun violence in Brooklyn.

Kreyolicious: Why Toussaint L’Ouverture?
Toussaint L’Ouverture is one of the most under-appreciated revolutionaries of all time. He led the first and only successful slave rebellion. He showed blacks all over the world that freedom was possible. He was far ahead of his time in terms of his leadership approach as well as his progressive ideas.
Toussaint Louverture Liberator T-shirt

Kreyolicious: Will you be adding additional pieces?
At the moment, we’re not slated to release any additional heritage-inspired pieces.
Toussaint Louverture Liberator T-shirt

Kreyolicious: Why do you think heritage-inspired clothing is popular?
The popularity of heritage-inspired clothing is due to the fact that the consciousness of the black masses is growing. People have the resources to learn about their own history. When you learn about the history of your people, you begin to have pride in it. That pride then manifests itself into your fashion choices.

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K St. Fort
K St. Fort
ABOUT K. St Fort K. St. Fort is the Editor and Founder of, well, Kreyolicious.com and wishes to give you a heartfelt welcome to her site. She loves to read, write, and listen to music and is fascinated by her Haitian roots, and all aspects of her culture. Speaking of music, she likes it loud, really, really loud. Like bicuspid valve raising-loud. Her other love are the movies. She was once a Top 50 finalist for a student screenwriting competition, encouraging her to continue pounding the pavement. She has completed several screenplays, with Haiti as the backdrop, one of which tackles sexual abuse in an upper middle class Haitian family, while another has child slavery as its subject. She is currently completing another script, this time a thriller, about two sisters who reunite after nearly 10 years of separation. A strong believer in using films to further educational purposes, and to raise awareness about important subjects, she has made it a point to write about social issues facing Haiti, and making them an integral part of her projects. She has interviewed such Haitian-American celebrities as Roxane Gay, Garcelle Beauvais, Jimmy Jean-Louis, Briana Roy, Karen Civil, and many, many more. And that’s her writing this whole biographical sketch. She actually thinks writing about herself in the third person is cute. MY WEBSITE Kreyolicious ™: kree-ohl-lish-uh s: Surely an adjective…the state of being young, gorgeous, fine and utterly Haitian. Kreyolicious.com™, the hub for young, upwardly mobile Haitian-Americans, is akin to a 18th Century cultural salon but with a Millennium sensibility–an inviting lair, where we can discuss literature, music, problems facing the community, and everything on the side and in-between. Kreyolicious is the premier lifestyle, culture and entertainment blog and brand of the hip, young, trend-oriented, forward thinking Haitian-American. It’s the definite hot spot to learn more about Haiti our emerging identity as a people, and explore our pride and passion about our unique and vibrant culture. Within the site’s pages, Kreyolicious.com is going to engage you, empower you, and deepen your connection to everything Haitian: the issues, the culture, our cinema, the history, our cuisine, the style, the music, the worldwide community. Make yourself at home in my cultural salon. If you’re looking to learn more about Haiti, Kreyolicious.com invites you to board this trolley on a journey–on our journey. For me too, it is a process, a non-ending cultural odyssey. If you’re already acculturated, I can certainly learn something from you. We can learn from one other, for certain. With my site, Kreyolicious.com I look forward to inspiring you, to enriching you, and to participating alongside of you, in the cultural celebration. And being utterly kreyolicious. How do you wear your kreyoliciousness? On your sleeves, like I do? Kreyoliciously Yours, Your girl K. St. Fort, Ahem, follow me elsewhere!

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