Natural Hair Magazine CRWN Now Has Launched Its First Official Issue

CRWN Magazine has launched its first issue after one year of curating, laboring, ‘picture taking’ and downright hard work. Recently co founder and editor-in-chief Lindsey Day and business partner Nkrumah spoke with Yahoo news giving them the inside scoop of what to expect with the first issue.

Via yahoo news:

CRWN magazine launched the first official issue of its natural-hair publication at an intimate rooftop brunch in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, on Aug. 28. The launch comes almost a year to the day after CRWN saw its first iteration as a zine, which was handed out for free during the borough’s Afropunk music festival.

“[With the zine], we just wanted to put the essence of who we were out there and put it in people’s hands as soon as possible rather than waiting and building this huge thing to sell,” co-founder and editor-in-chief Lindsey Day tells Yahoo Beauty a week before the launch. Now, that “huge thing” comprises 137 pages and almost 20 contributors all on topics and issues of interest to women with natural hair.

“Black women have not been represented in an honest way in print,” Nkrumah Farrar, the publication’s creative director and Day’s business partner, tells Yahoo Beauty. The pair met working together on a blog on the West Coast, where Farrar still lives, but eventually reconnected and came up with CRWN on the very rooftop that the brunch was held. “The approach that has been taken is outdated visually and otherwise; we don’t just mean in hair magazines, we mean in magazines in general.” His statements ring true.

The content also goes deeper than hair. “People are going to be pleasantly surprised,” Farrar says….