Duct tape covers a large crack in the premier booth at Hard Time Josephine’s Cooking, where waitresses still call you “sweetie” and customers come for the steaming shrimp bisque and homemade peach cobbler with just a hint of cinnamon. Not so long ago, an eyesore like this at one of Chicago’s top soul food restaurants [...]
Wings for this Man
Wings for this Man is a propaganda film produced in 1945 by the U.S. Army Air Forces First Motion Picture Unit about the Tuskegee Airmen, the first unit of African-American pilots in the US military. It’s narrated by Ronald Reagan. Beginning with dramatic footage of aerial combat over Italy, showing an outnumbered American squadron successfully [...]
Step Afrika, Washington D.C.
Step Afrika is the first professional company in the world dedicated to the tradition of stepping……..a competitive dance practiced on college campuses among black fraternities with roots in African dance traditions. The group was founded in 1994 by Brian Williams, a Howard University graduate and Alpha Phi Alpha stepper who was struck by the similarities [...]
Afrolatinos “The Untaught Story” TV Series
Afrolatinos “The Untaught Story” is a documentary television series independently produced by Creador Pictures, LLC. The program will illustrate history and celebrate the rich culture of people in Latin America of African descent. From the story of how and when slaves came to Central and South America to identity issues that still exist in the [...]
Chicago’s Home of Chicken & Waffles, Chicago, IL
The menu selection offers generous portions of fried chicken, southern fried catfish and grits, omelletes, grilled salmon, lemon pepper grilled catfish, peach cobbler, sweet potato pie and of course, our famous waffles, just to name a few. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are served all day and you can even BYOB from 5pm to 9pm ($10 [...]
Sweet Auburn Springfest, Atlanta, GA
Drawing nearly a half a million people to Atlanta’s Martin Luther King/Sweet Auburn Historical District over three days each year in May, the 27th Annual Sweet Auburn Springfest officially kicks off Atlanta’s big summer festival season. Local business leaders, entertainers, artists, civil rights advocates and community activists are set to help emphasize and recognize historical African-American [...]
