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"Quilen Blackwell, owner of a Chicago nonprofit that employs at-risk youth to turn vacant lots into flower farms, has won CNN’s Hero of the Year Award."

chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/12...
South Side flower shop owner named CNN's Hero of the Year
Quilen Blackwell says he will use the $100,000 prize to expand his nonprofit Chicago Eco House, which grows flowers on previously vacant South and West side lots, and Southside Blooms, an Englewood fl...
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December 9, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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Con Funk Shun was one of the best-known bands of their era and they're still touring/recording today.

It was an honor to talk with co-founder/lead guitarist Michael Cooper about Con Funk Shun's start, how they wrote their hits and yes, the "Love's Train" backstory #MusicSky
youtu.be/-IWwNu3IrVI?...
Ffun with Michael Cooper of Con Funk Shun here On The Groove Line!
YouTube video by On The Groove Line
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November 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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I need to go to Cali just to try this brisket.

That alone is a crazy sentence. But look at this….
October 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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The lost Parliament-Funkadelic-Parlet concert film as told by this week’s guest sethneblett (the son of the queen of funk, Mallia Franklin of Parliament-Funkadelic & Parlet & author of his new book mothershipconnecte:The Women of Parliament-Funkadelic)! shows.acast.com/revolutionsp...
October 13, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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TONIGHT 9/9 IN-PERSON & VIRTUAL I hope you'll join me at CUNY's Graduate Center at 6:30 pm ET when I'll be talking about my book "Joy Goddess: A'Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance," writing biography & organizing research with Eric K. Washington. Here's the registration link bit.ly/4gjgf7j
A'Lelia Bundles on A'Lelia Walker in conversation with Eric K. Washington
Dubbed the “joy goddess of Harlem’s 1920s” by poet Langston Hughes, A’Lelia Walker, daughter of millionaire entrepreneur Madam C.J.
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September 9, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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This weekend I got my eggs, honey, hot sauce and jams from a local Black farmer. I’m planning to do an event on her farm so that more people know about her. We are all we got!!

SUPPORT BLACK FARMERS!!!!

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Black Farmers Index
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September 8, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Finally eating after making sure every one else got food
September 1, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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It’s off the grill. Sides about to get going. I won’t lie this the most beautiful rib I can remember doing.
September 1, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The haul from this year's paw paw picking outing.

Thinking of using them to make bread or hot sauce.
August 31, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Remembering Isaac Hayes on his birthday... (August 20, 1942 – August 10, 2008) 💙🕊️

His version of "Walk On By" is perfection...
August 20, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Me to my mom, who grew up in Mississippi:
August 19, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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kinda related, i hate when y’all call shit “slave food”. for starters, if not for that “slave food” yo Black ass wouldn’t be here. the creativity and ingenuity that was required to create these nourishing and filling dishes with the “worst” parts of animals and undesired vegetables is amazing.
August 19, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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What is a Black Owned Restaurant you remember that doesn’t exist anymore?
August 1, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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In my family, we eat butternut squash pie. No pumpkin or sweet potato. Find the recipe at Garden and Gun 💜
November 27, 2024 at 4:44 PM
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I learned to make mac & cheese from The Kitchenista. It's everything. I hope you enjoyed yours!
December 4, 2024 at 12:55 AM
My favorite restaurant meals from 2024: El Celler de Can Roca (Girona) -- June:
December 1, 2024 at 4:00 PM