The James Beard nominations for 2024 have just been announced, and a few of the folks we've worked with over the years are in the mix. Here's the full list of nominees, via @Eater:
Toni Tipton-Martin scored a James Beard nomination for "Juke Joints, Jazz Clubs, and Juice: Cocktails from Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks." Here's her @Flipboard collection about her work in raising the profile of Black cuisine.
And the team at "High on the Hog" were nominated in the docuseries category. The show's host, Whetstone magazine founder Stephen Satterfield, curated this @Flipboard Storyboard about what food can teach us about Black identity and culture.
Victoria Santa Cruz was a Peruvian composer, choreographer, and activist.
This is a clip from a stellar 1978 performance of her piece, “Me Gritaron ¡Negra!” It’s a powerful piece about the weight of racism on a young Black girl.
It’s Black History Month, a time for learning and growing, not sharing your favorite MLK quote.
One of my colleagues—a Black woman—is sharing resources all month with our team. She gave me permission to reshare here and asked me not to credit her by name.
I’ll add to this thread all month to increase the impact of her hard work.
A look into an interesting piece of history! Cab Calloway's Hepster's Dictionary introduced the jive vernacular of Harlem musicians and is the first dictionary to be written by an African-American. #BlackCulture#Legacy#lindyhop#dance#jazz
In 2007, with no experience in digital marketing, Derrick and Ramunda Young turned their commitment to Black culture and love of reading into Mahogany Books, an online destination for Black literature. Fourteen years later, their business now includes a thriving online store, a retail shop located in the Anacostia Arts Center in Washington D.C. and a new store located in National Harbor in Maryland.
between May and October of last year, we sold 100,000 books online. Going into the holidays, it increased, giving Mahogany Books multi-million dollar revenue status.