Black History 365: Julius Rodriguez
Julius Rodriguez, a young pianist fusing (all) the music from inside-out
Julius Rodriguez, a young pianist fusing (all) the music from inside-out
https://www.npr.org/2022/12/14/1142813117/stephen-twitch-boss-ellen-shows-dancing-dj-dies
Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss, ‘Ellen’ show’s dancing DJ, has died at 40
https://www.npr.org/2022/12/13/1142418939/jason-reynolds-literature-ambassador-young-people
Literature ambassador Jason Reynolds knows young people have a story of their own
https://www.andremusgrove.com/about
André Musgrove is an Underwater Cinematographer, Photographer, Filmmaker, Professional Freediver, Underwater Stunt Performer, and Private Dive Guide born and based in The Bahamas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Bass
Karen Bass won the 2022 Los Angeles mayoral election to become the first woman and second black mayor of Los Angeles.[13][14][15][16] She was sworn in on December 11, 2022 by Vice PresidentKamala Harris.[17]
https://sports.yahoo.com/afro-indigenous-tiktoker-sets-record-201940817.html
Laura Clark
July 8, 2022
https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/21/us/los-angeles-skid-row-beauty-2-the-streetz-cnnheroes/index.html
By Allie Torgan, CNN
Published 4:19 PM EDT, Thu April 21, 2022
Julia Bullock is an American classical singer who “communicates intense, authentic feeling, as if she were singing right from her soul” (Opera News).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mashama_Bailey
Mashama Bailey is an American chef trained in French technique who is currently cooking Southern cuisine. In 2019, Bailey was awarded a James Beard Award as best chef of the southeast.[1] In 2022, Bailey was awarded a James Beard Award as Outstanding Chef.[2]
Mashama Bailey was born to David and Catherine Bailey in the Bronx.[3] She was the eldest of three with one sister and one brother.[4] Bailey moved to Waynesboro, Georgia at the age of 2, Savannah, Georgia at 5, and then to Queens, New York when she was 11.[5] Bailey learned to cook from her mother and grandmother.[4]
After graduating from Francis Lewis High School, Bailey attended Sullivan County Community College[3] where she studied physical therapy and later switched to social work.[6] Early in her career Bailey worked at a homeless shelter in Brooklyn, New York. As the project underwent changes she was let go, an experience that became a catalyst for her to explore the culinary arts. [7] She enrolled in Peter Kump’s New York Cooking School, and after graduating began her culinary career at Aquagrill in SoHo. [7]
Bailey, interested in exploring the wider range of careers available in the culinary arts, took a break from the restaurant industry, during which time she worked as a personal chef on the Upper East Side.[8] This left some of her family concerned with the racial and class dynamics, as it seemed a return to how her grandmother migrated from Georgia to Manhattan and worked as a maid. Bailey’s grandmother worked within several households, one of the more famous being that of Art Carney. [3]
Working as a personal chef didn’t inspire Bailey as she had hoped, and during this time she applied for a work-study program that led her to Château du Fey in Burgundy, France.[4] There she was mentored by Anne Willan who advised her to continue cooking in restaurants instead of exploring a culinary writing career. [9]
Bailey started her career as an intern at Aquagrill in 2001, and also worked at David Burke and Donatella, and the Oak Room in the Plaza Hotel.[10] In 2010, Bailey was hired at Prune, where she was quickly promoted to sous-chef and worked for four years.[11]
Startup entrepreneur John O. Morisano heard about Bailey through the chef and owner of Prune, Gabrielle Hamilton, and reached out to her about a long-abandoned, former Jim Crow segregated Greyhound station he’d bought in Savannah, Georgia.[12][13] Across the street from the property is the Chatham County Courthouse where Bailey’s parents were married in the 1980s.[14] The restaurant, named The Grey, was nominated for the 2015 James Beard Foundation Award for Best New Restaurant.[15]
On October 15, 2018, Morisano and Bailey opened The Grey Market in Savannah inspired by Southern lunch counters and New York City bodegas.[16] Since 2017, Bailey has served as chairwoman of the Edna Lewis Foundation, which works to “revive, preserve, and celebrate the rich history of African-American cookery by cultivating a deeper understanding of Southern food and culture in America.”[11][17]
She was a featured chef in the sixth season of Netflix‘s Chef’s Table and was a guest on season 14, episode 6 of Top Chef.
https://www.yewandekomolafe.com/my-story
https://www.yewandekomolafe.com/
Yewande Komolafe is a recipe developer, food stylist and author of the New York Times “10 Essential Nigerian Recipes’. She is currently working on her first cookbook, an as-yet-untitled collection of essential Nigerian Recipes (Ten Speed Press, Fall 2021), rooted in the converging cuisines of her hometown Lagos.