Wesleyan University
Bachelor of Arts (BA)
1989-1993
Class of 1993
Alpha Phi Alpha
personal message
My name is Smokey D. Fontaine, the Chief Content Officer of Interactive One. It is my pleasure to be a part of the Black Planet community and it is my intention to bring to this phenomenal platform - the world's original social network - some of the best content, technology, tools and information the web has ever seen...
I've had a very fortunate media background both online and off.
Here's my Twitter feed. Follow me, just don't hate on the high school pic!
Here is the best of my magazine work...
Here is an excerpt from my bio...
Named after the Motown legend, Smokey D. Fontaine was most recently the CEO / Editor-In-Chief of GIANT magazine. He has served as Senior Producer of Entertainment for Volume.com, the $35 million African-American Internet portal sponsored by HBO, where he continued the thesis argument set forth for Wesleyan University six years earlier that America was in the midst of a 21st century cultural renaissance. He was the US Editor of Trace magazine where he secured the fashion and music magazine's US distribution and advertising deals while writing nine cover stories; was the Music Editor of The Source magazine where he oversaw the growth of the world's largest music magazine on the newsstand and was nominated for a National Magazine Award for General Excellence in 2000, and was the Founder & CEO of america, the world's first urban luxury publication. Fontaine is also the author of two books, What's Your Hi-Fi Q?andEARL: The Autobiography of DMX.
Here are my celebrity covers for Giant Magazine:
Here are my favorite covers from america magazine:
Here are a handful of my favorite jams...
And here are the feeds from the hot sites of the Black Planet Universe!
So that's the deal. Add my page. Send me a comment. Tell me what like, love, need, want...and let's blow up this Black Planet thing together!
