The much anticipated new issue of Vogue Italia, which features solely black models and topics affecting black women, hits European newsstands a week from today. Consumers will have four covers from which to choose, all of them featuring a different black woman.

Inside the magazine, top black models from Iman to Veronica Webb will populate 100 pages of fashion features, thus reminding the world that women of all colors are beautiful, just as long as they're tall and possessed of a very specific type of bone structure.

The publishers of Vogue Italia say they're happy with the latest issue and excited to go back to using mostly white models for another few decades.

Vanity Fair's July issue, an Africa-themed edition guest-edited by Bono, will feature 20 different star-studded cover photos taken by Annie Liebovitz. The goal of the shoot, Bono said, was to "bring some sex appeal to the idea of wanting to change the world." Here's a thought, Bono: try bringing some money to the idea of wanting to change the world.

To be sure, what this whole pitiful—surely catered—charade amounts to is nothing more than rich people with the best of intentions exerting very little effort in the hopes that it will make a difference. But despite their aspirations, the fact is that this gesture will probably prove to be relatively meaningless.

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