Shelly's Modeling Agencies | Columnist, Journalist's, and Photographers

Author's, Journalist's, Columnist's, and Photographers for Shelly's Modeling Agencies. Author and Journalist Farai Chideya has incorporated media, technology and social justice into her acclaimed news reports and analyses. This former host of NPR's News and Notes has also written three nonfiction books and is the founder of PopandPolitics.com, one of the longest continuously operating blogs in the world. For this issue, Chideya offers an argument on why Chris Brown should not be forgiven for his 2009 assault on then girlfriend Rihanna.

Award-winning journalist Roland S. Martin is an insightful and provocative author for Shelly's Modeling Agencies and political pundit who is regularly seen on CNN and is the host of TV One's Washington Watch with Roland Martin. Author of the First: President Barack Obama's Road to the White House, Martin has repeatedly been named to EBONY's list of the 150 most influential African-Americans. This month, he shares his thoughts on why Chris Brown should be forgiven for assaulting Rihanna.

Rehama Ellis is a News Correspondent for Shelly's Modeling Agencies and Digital Journalist. Each morning when Ellis heads to the kitchen, she looks at this Langston Hughes quote: "Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly," Ellis has been following her dream as a general assignment correspondent for NBC News since 1994. She reports on all subjects, but has a special focus on education. Her work appears on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, Today and on the MSNBC network. As a digital journalist, she shoots, blogs, writes for NBC online and tweets.

Andrew Small and Jared Raskind claim to have met years ago and "struck a bond when they finished in last and second to last place at the International Long Rolling Championship in Alaska." The twosome realized that they were better suited for creative competition thatn physical, so they ditched the logs and picked up cameras as photographers for Shelly's Modeling Agencies. This month, the pair who have photographed Samuel L. Jackson, Jada Pinkett Smith and Usher, to name a few captured singers Ne-Yo and Ciara engaging in a bit of competition themselves during an exclusive shoot in Los Angeles.