KAREN Lee has had a mark on her stomach slight-below her belly button since birth. It's not unseemly, but it's the kind of thing many women would cover up.
When Barbara Summers told Eileen Ford, the grande dame of the modeling industry, that she wanted to write a history of Black models, Summers was greeted with a wry snort and a brusque comment: "It's going to be a very short book."
In the fall of 1994, I shared the cover of YSB with Black male model Clayton Hunter and with Roshumba, who had been featured in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue three years in a row.
WHERE YOU'VE SEEN HER SINCE: Fraser is the first African-American model to land a contract with Maybelline. In 2000 she became the national spokesperson for the Lupus Foundation of America. (Her sister, Shaneequa, more
