Born in Detroit and raised in Harlem, Jourdan Ash has been immersed in sneaker culture for as long as she can remember. The journalist and founder of True to Us -- an online platform that "[normalizes] Black and brown women as the foundation of the sneaker and streetwear industries" -- grew up being dressed in Air Jordans by her mother, and then discovered Nike's Air Force 1 when she moved to Harlem, a place many would consider the capital of Western sneaker culture, as a young child.Though the ...
Born in Detroit and raised in Harlem, Jourdan Ash has been immersed in sneaker culture for as long as she can remember. The journalist and founder of True to Us -- an online platform that "[normalizes] Black and brown women as the foundation of the sneaker and streetwear industries" -- grew up being dressed in Air Jordans by her mother, and then discovered Nike's Air Force 1 when she moved to Harlem, a place many would consider the capital of Western sneaker culture, as a young child.Though the ...
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