How the scruffy kids of the ’60s youth movement turned cooking from a shameful job into a lauded profession.
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Posted inProfiles & Interviews
Publishing the Best of the Desert: An Interview With Ken Layne
“If you’re doing something small, something that’s mostly your labor and vision, then stick to what makes you satisfied.”
Posted inHistory
The Word Is ‘Nemesis’: The Fight to Integrate the National Spelling Bee
For talented black spellers in the 1960s, the segregated local spelling bee was the beginning and the end of the long road to Washington, D.C.
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Story
American Sphinx
Civil War monuments in the North erased an emancipated Black population. But the Sphinx looked to a new world: an integrated Africa and America.
Posted inBlog Post, Quotes, Unapologetic Women
Jemele Hill Knows What You Really Want to Call Her
The host was brought on to help redefine the floundering ESPN brand. Now she’s under attack, and the channel is nowhere to be seen.
Posted inHistory, Story
The Word Is ‘Nemesis’: The Fight to Integrate the National Spelling Bee
For talented black spellers in the 1960s, the segregated local spelling bee was the beginning and the end of the long road to Washington, D.C.
Posted inFeature
Ugly, Bitter, and True
After years of feeling hopeless and barely human, one talented writer manages to find her will to live.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Fine Dining
One New Orleans man reflects on the many unflattering racial layers of life of his city. “There are four of us. Four African Americans out of 280. One from a class of the early eighties. Two from the nineties. And me representing the 2000s.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Blog Post, Current Events, Media, Unapologetic Women
We’re Going Through Hell, and Men Need to Join Us There
The momentum is happening and it’s exhausting for women.
Posted inNonfiction, Sports
How the NBA Failed Royce White
He was compared to basketball superstars like Charles Barkley and LeBron James. But without comprehensive mental health treatment, Royce White found himself fighting for a new cause.
