City LIfe
Our first stay in Reims, France seemed to be enchanted from the start. The Notre-Dame de Reims seemed like a beautiful version of “Our Lady of Paris” in miniature!
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One balmy Southern California weekend in July, I had the opportunity to explore an eminent garden center in Los Angeles called Rolling Greens. I had learned about this comprehensive, family-owned garden center from their smaller shop in the Arts District in Downtown Los Angeles. But it is the larger flagship center in Culver City is where our afternoon was spent…
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Shakur’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is a fitting tribute to his life and his work. It is a reminder of his impact on popular culture, and it is a testament to his lasting legacy.
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The People’s Justice Festival was designed to include “a reunion of families, organizers, activists, artists, spiritualists, freedom fighters, and allies. It’s a reclamation of the soul of Black Lives Matter, a chance to build our skills and restore our Spirits.” The vision was fulfilled this past Saturday!
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Town Bizness Oakland – The City & Pride & Purpose “Wakanda Forever” sounds good. But, where I’m from–Town Bizness is what the Eastside of…
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The Leimert Park Juneteenth celebration is essentially a large family reunion to bring the Black community of LA together. It is designed to give back to Black owned businesses within the south Los Angeles area exposure, and to create awareness of the Black creative community in Leimert Park.
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I have traveled through many nations, including this trip into France, that had colonized the world. And not once had I felt–Black. Or at least the sensation of how traveling while Black in America has conditioned me to feel. Black people, are constantly navigating that.
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A week of romping through euro countries, many that are geographically or populously smaller than states at home. Trains, planes, and the unwise decision to rent an automobile.
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At 48, my pallet has evolved from my younger days when the only crushed grapes my friends and I knew were the top-of-the-line wine Carlos Rossi and a motel that would leave the light on. Much has changed with me and Napa as well. Growing up near one of the worlds premier viticulture regions in the world, the epicenter of wine country seemed a world away from my East Bay home in Richmond, California.
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Much like baseball, I move station to station. I have to be aware of the pitch-by-pitch situational changes. The analytics of a Wrigley Field encounter and then exploring greater Black Chicago…
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Charming and beckoning, these words can all be used to describe Dublin, Ireland! Dublin is the Capitol City of the Republic of Ireland and it is full of vibrant daily living, with days worth of sight-seeing and exploring available for visitors.
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President Biden ushered in Juneteeth as a national holiday. But what comes next? How do we continue to move forward towards a more equal future?
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