my friend Sandra (BGLH's first interview!)

I worked with Sandra at the Chicago Defender. She is the newspaper's attorney, a jewelry maker whose line, Pretty Afrika, has been reviewed by the Chicago Sun-Times, and a fellow natural (Check out her Sun-Times review here.) More importantly, she encouraged me to keep this blog going after I was laid off from the Defender. I wanted to showcase her jewelry (and her hair) and - as a fellow side