NC food icon ‘Mama Dip’ passes away | WRAL
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — One of North Carolina’s most beloved chefs and restaurant owners, Mildred Cotton Council aka “Mama Dip,” has died, her daughter said Monday. Council, who turned 89…
In a superhero cape, he feeds the city’s hungry and homeless. And he’s only 4 | CNN
Birmingham (CNN) Austin Perine’s superhero cape glides and flutters as he hands chicken sandwiches to homeless men outside a shelter in Birmingham, Alabama. It’s a sweltering 95 degrees outside, but…
See hip-hop evolve through photos at the African American History and Culture Museum
By Brendan L. Smith Public Enemy in 1987 by Jack Mitchell. (Image courtesy Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture) In the late 1970s, hip-hop burst onto the…
When the “victim” you fought for turns out to be the victimizer: Sherita Dixon-Cole and the painful consequences of a false report of sexual assault and police misconduct | Medium
On this past Sunday evening, after being contacted by family, friends, and attorneys for a Texas woman named Sherita Dixon-Cole, I was told that she had been sexually assaulted and…
As He Heads Back To Prison, A Nashville Man Says ‘Goodbye’ To The New Life He Hoped To Build | Nashville Public Radio
It’s 4 o’clock on a Saturday in late April, and over a dozen people have gathered for a surprise party in honor of Matthew Charles at his girlfriend Naomi Tharpe’s…
The Soul of Solo Is a Droid | The Atlantic
Spoilers for Solo: A Star Wars Story ahead. George Lucas has long said that he envisioned Star Wars as a story told from the perspective of a robot, and that…
Ellis Island Tea, A Family Recipe for Jamaican Sweet Tea, “Goes National”
Detroit, MI — Detroit entrepreneur Nailah Ellis-Brown is defying the odds. At the age of 20, she started her hand-crafted tea business during the height of the Great Recession in…
Indian Tribes Dig In to Gain Their Share of Sports Betting | The New York Times
State officials from California to Connecticut spent last week maneuvering for control of the tens of billions of dollars in projected revenue from sports betting, and joining them was another…
America’s first black female governor? Stacey Abrams: ‘You don’t tell yourself no’ | The Guardian
For Stacey Abrams to become the first black female governor – and in Georgia, no less – would take a miracle. Then again, according to the politics of convention, it…