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Three Espresso Martinis, One Flight: Winsome Prime Leans Into Fall
Winsome Prime is introducing a fall cocktail collection with an Espresso Martini Flight and several seasonal drinks.
Southern Jerks Started in a Gas Station. Now It’s Growing Across Houston.
Southern Jerks HTX is expanding its Houston footprint with two larger, family-friendly restaurant locations.
Paradise HTX Is Putting $1,000 on Houston’s Best Halloween Look
Paradise HTX is planning a Halloween weekend costume contest with $1,000 in prizes and a seasonal cocktail menu.
Houston’s Chef Gala Puts Young Culinary Champions Beside the Pros
Autism Speaks will hold its seventh annual Chef Gala Houston at Bayou Music Center on Oct. 17.
Savoy Plans a Family Trunk-or-Treat in Houston’s Third Ward
The Savoy plans a free family Trunk-or-Treat in Houston’s Third Ward on Oct. 30 with candy, inflatables and a kid-friendly haunted house.
The Question After the Question
Watching Who Killed Garrett Phillips? raised a larger question: What happens when authorities settle on an answer and no one keeps asking whether it is true?
We Black. We Golf. And We Built Our Own Community.
We Black We Golf is a Milwaukee-area nonprofit using golf instruction, mentorship, outings and social connection to build community around the game.
What We Carry From Our Mothers
What happens when hurt between mothers and daughters travels from one generation to the next? Detroit therapist Nneka Owens says healing starts with naming what families often leave unsaid.
Who Is Byron Donalds?
Byron Donalds could become Florida’s first Black governor. His path there is more complicated than the headline. BLAC Magazine · August 2026 He won by a lot, and he won early. The Associated Press called the Republican primary for governor of Florida as soon as the polls closed Tuesday night. Byron Donalds took nearly 48 […]
Building Community Through Housing and Leadership
Black Legacy Advancement Coalition a Detroit nonprofit that has positioned housing, leadership, and community engagement as interconnected parts of the same mission.
The Résumé Came Later
Before I knew about the scholarship, the businesses or the book, I met the man. Sterling Crockett’s story is about choice, grief and what we do with what life places in our hands.
Chita’s Nefertiti Is a Detroit Legacy Worth Knowing
Some Detroit businesses are places you visit. Others become part of how a neighborhood remembers itself. Chita’s Nefertiti Bar & Grill belongs to the second group. For more than three decades, the Black-owned establishment has offered Detroiters a place to eat, listen to music, celebrate and see familiar faces. Now operating from a newly renovated […]