Anna Acheampong’s daughter came home upset from school one day in The Netherlands, after questions came up about her race. What was most shocking to Anna was that her daughter insinuated that she would have more friends if her hair was straighter and her eyes were blue. “My daughter started noticing that she was different...Read More
Happy National Margarita Day! It’s one of my favorite drinking holidays. Who doesn’t love a good margarita?! And to take it up a notch, I used a Black-owned spirit called Bleu Royal. It’s a tequila infused with rum. RUM! Looks like National Margarita Day and Black History Month collide only in a way possible here...Read More
Kunga Kihohia went to one of the best schools in Florida. He graduated, was making money, and then one day lost everything. He ended up homeless in Miami, sleeping in his car. Then a trip to Kenya would change his life. His parents are from Kenya, but he was born and raised and spent most of...Read More
If you’re not new here, you know that I share almost anything involving Black people in the wine, spirits, or food industries. I have a running list of over 120+ Black-owned spirits, a list of over 120+ Black-owned restaurants in Baltimore, and most recently, I wrote about cocktail books written by Black authors, While I’m...Read More
Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala becomes the first African woman ever to be at the helm of the World Trade Organisation in it’s entire 25-year history The World Trade Organization (WTO) has appointed former Nigeria’s finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as the new director-general. Ngozi now becomes the first woman and also African to lead the Switzerland-based institution....Read More
In 1816 when the American Colonization Society (ACS) was founded by a group of Quakers and slaveholders, its mission was to help relocate freed Black people. And between 1821 and 1838 after the ACS had helped 86 freed Enslaved Americans leave New York for the British colony of Sierra Leone, the ACS developed the first...Read More
Late afrobeat legend and activist, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti has been nominated for induction into the 2021 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In arguably the most diverse and inclusive ballot to date, the king of Afrobeat is joined by the likes of Mary J. Blige, Jay-Z and many more favorites. Fela Kuti‘s estate has been keeping the...Read More
It’s hard to believe that when Shannon Mustipher published her book, Tiki: Modern Tropical Cocktails in 2019, it was the first cocktail recipe book written by a working Black American bartender and released by a major publisher in more than 100 years. It’s astonishing. ‘An Ideal Bartender’ by Tom Bullock was the first. Black Americans...Read More
Victoria Santa Cruz was born October 27th, 1922 in Lima, Peru and a Afro-Peruvian choreographer, composers, and activist. She is called the “the mother of Afro-Peruvian dance and theater”. She grew up in a bilingual household, her mother only spoke Spanish but her father spoke both English and Spanish Victoria was 7 years old when...Read More
Ingredients: 1 cup lemonade 2 pilsner beers 1/4 cup agave nectar 4 oz. vodka or tequila Instructions: Pour all ingredients into a pitcher and stir until combine. Garnish with lemons and enjoy!Read More
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