PERSON: Michaela Angela Davis

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Writer

Michaela Angela Davis is a writer on African-American style, race, gender and hip-hop culture in the United States. She is also a fashion expert and an “image activist.”

Michaela Angela Davis was born on March 31, 1964, in Landshut, Germany, and raised in Washington, D.C. She is the daughter of Harold Edward Gregory Davis and Helen Jean Butler. Her mother was convinced that her next child would be a boy and, after visiting the Sistine Chapel during her pregnancy, decided to name him Michael Angelo. When Davis was born, her mother gave her the female version of the name, Michaela Angela. Davis has two sisters, Debbie and Monica, and a brother, Eddie.

She began her studies at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Washington, D.C., as a National Arts Scholar. She went to college at New York University, and studied at the Stella Adler Acting Conservatory, and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.

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