Begin the Year with a Challenge and Show Your Skills!
Two contests designed to challenge youth and allow them to show off their skills were recently announced.
Healthy Choices, Healthy Living, Healthy Generations Hip Hop/Rap Contest
The Ladies of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Incorporated, Iota Sigma Chapter are hosting their first Hip Hop Rap Contest in Conjunction with their 4th Sigma Youth Symposium.
Middle/high school students will be [...]
The Neelys are Still Down Home
by Cesca Janece Waterfield
As co-owners of Neely’s Bar-B-Que, husband and wife Patrick and Gina Neely run one of the most successful restaurants in the South. As if that weren’t enough, last February, the couple premiered in their own Food Network show, “Down Home with the Neelys.” The show set a five-year record as the network’s [...]
Eating for Luck in the New Year
by Cesca Janece Waterfield
When Barack Obama came to the restaurant where Mary Walker is a cook, “He didn’t have time to eat,” she says. “He got his peach cobbler to go.” She left the kitchen to see the then-Illinois senator greet employees and diners. “It was exciting, very exciting,” she says.
Peaches Restaurant, on N. Farish [...]
Rebooting Your Romance for the New Year
by Erika Townsend
With New Year’s celebrations winding down and inauguration celebrations gearing up, the season of new beginnings is in full swing. We are on the cusp of change and primed for new possibilities. Status quo has been shaken and turned on its side. You can do the same with your relationship.
It is time for [...]
Charlie Murphy: His Biggest Year Yet
Charlie Murphy, Eddie’s older brother, has been a working comedian for twenty years, and a busy stand-up comic for six. He’s also appeared in a number of feature films, lending his writing talents to several.
But he became a household name when he joined the cast of “Chappelle’s Show.” Nominated for three Emmy awards, “Chappelle’s Show” [...]
