04/17/2013 - 19:49
Black Food Month activities include the opening of the African-American Tourism Welcome Center serving San Francisco and the Bay Area on March 6, 2013 at Bumzy's Chocolate Chip Cookies, 1460 Fillmore St. with top tourism officials from the world's favorite city, learning about the centennial of the newspaper article which brought jazz into the global lexicon.
01/08/2013 - 10:51
WASHINGTON -- Having spent ten years conceiving 876 Cafe, Moreen Wallace imbued the Caribbean fusion restaurant with a creative blend of island favorites to delight the Cleveland Park neighborhood.
01/07/2013 - 18:22
WASHINGTON -- On the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, one filmmaker stands apart as the premiere depictor of the Middle Passage.
You can find the real deal generally at one of the front tables of Sankofa, the bookstore and restaurant across from Howard University where filmmaker Haile Gerima, institutionalizes his portrait of the African journey.
01/07/2013 - 11:40
WASHINGTON -- One of the biggest beneficiaries of the unexpected success of the Washington Redskins and their new superhero quarterback Robert Griffin III has been a restaurant which wrote the book on perseverance.
Mrs. Virginia Ali, who founded Ben's Chili Bowl with her late husband Ben in a former theater in U Street in 1958, tells of watching the final game of the NFL regular season between the Redskins and Dallas Cowboys.
"Right at halftime, there was a shot of our restaurant, with 30 million people watching," she recalled in amazement. "They described it as a local legend."
