By Anna Rahmanan, HuffPost Renowned chef Marcus Samuelsson, who has pivoted to help his community, speaks about the current state of the food industry and the status of African Americans. Chef Marcus Samuelsson — the owner of a slew of restaurants around the United States, Canada and Europe — tells Anna Rahmanan that “change is coming to […]
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Why I’m sick of “woke” culture | Salon
The more affluent control the narrative so being “woke” will be hot until the rest of black America gets a voice [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Big bruh, I got these #StayWoke shirts for twenty dollars!” said the dude I’ve bought my incense from for over five years now. His shop is just a little ways away from […]
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Heard but Not Seen | Slate
Black music in white spaces. . [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Away from home, I walk into unfamiliar spaces with my shoulders hunched and tight. Instinctively, I scan my surroundings, stretching every sense around the corners of the room until it feels safe. What the eye see? What the ears hear? What the nose smell? It’s Sunday afternoon […]
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The Hip-Hop Museum Is A Reality Thanks To $3.5 Million From New York | Ambrosia for Heads
For years, there has been a drive to make the Universal Hip-Hop Museum a reality. New, the Empire State is providing some significant seven-figure funding to give the Bronx, New York a place where Hip-Hop Heads can celebrate the culture’s origins and heritage. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] On Thursday (December 19), New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced […]
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Atlanta’s ‘Real Black Santa’ Says It’s Good For Kids To See A Santa That ‘Looks Like Them’ | Moms
— Lilee Williams, Moms.com Kids come in all shapes and sizes, and so do Santas. Of course, only the elves and Mrs. Claus know what the big guy who lives in the North Pole really looks like, so it’s great to see that mall across America are branching out and hiring a diverse slate of […]
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Girl denied school photos because of her hair gets magazine-worthy shoot with photographer | WBTW News 13
JACKSON, Mich. — An eight-year-old Michigan girl finally got her chance to shine in front of the camera this week at a photo shoot lead by a Chicago photographer, WILX reports. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] It was a happy turn of events for Marian Scott after she was not allowed taking her school picture because her hair’s […]
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This Soul Food Restaurant is Serving Lessons In Black History With “Shoebox Lunches” | Black Enterprise
Patrick Coleman is packing a piece of history into the meals served at his soul food restaurant Beans & Cornbread. Throughout Black History Month, the Detroit-based bistro will offer “shoebox lunches” similar to the boxes African Americans used to store food when traveling in the south during the Jim Crow-era. Because they were banned and […]
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Black U.S. Olympians Won In Nazi Germany Only To Be Overlooked At Home | NPR
Eighty years ago this month, the United States competed in the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games in Nazi Germany, with 18 African-American athletes part of the U.S. squad. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Track star Jesse Owens, one of the greatest Olympians of all time, won four gold medals. What the 17 other African-American Olympians did in Berlin, though, […]
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Marcus Samuelsson Is Fighting For A More Diverse, Creative Food Scene | Uproxx
Marcus Samuelsson is a lion of the modern food scene. This doesn’t simply come from his incredible string of successes in the kitchen (Aquavit, Red Rooster, Streetbird Rotisserie), his high-visibility TV projects (he’s a judge on Chopped and hosts No Passport Required on PBS), or even his Beard-Award winning writing (he’s authored New American Table, […]
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The Leah Chase You Didn’t Know | Garden & Gun
The Queen of Creole Cuisine had another passion—collecting and heralding the work of African American artists
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