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Brown Estate: Napa Valley’s First Black Owned Winery
September 3, 2017
Brown Estate Vineyards is the first and only Black-owned estate winery in California’s Napa Valley, and is best known as one of that region’s most well-regarded…
Forgotten Black Women of Early Hollywood On Display at CAAM
September 3, 2017
Hollywood has long had a problem with representation and diversity, especially concerning anyone female and nonwhite. In the first half of the 20th century,…
Chance The Rapper Raises $2.2 Million For 20 CPS Schools
September 3, 2017
Grammy Award winner Chance The Rapper announced Friday that he raised $2.2 million to help 20 Chicago Public Schools schools in Chicago. He began…
Deaf Fashion Blogger Sisters Use Style to Inspire The Disabled
August 25, 2017
Fashion bloggers Hermon and Heroda Berhane were seven years old when they both mysteriously went deaf at the same time. Now, at 34, twin…
Tres Lindas Cubanas Cigars, Miami’s First Afro-Cuban, Woman-Owned Cigar Company
August 14, 2017
Yvonne and Yvette Rodriguez, identical twin sisters who grew up in South Miami Heights, broke into the cigar industry three years ago with a…
Marshawn Lynch sits during National Anthem
August 13, 2017
Marshawn Lynch just scored another point (no pun intended) with me and many others on Saturday. The Raiders’ running back remained seated during the…