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Bothered, Brian Eason went back into the restaurant after leaving a tip and a Starbucks gift card for the waitress and asked other White customers if they received the same treatment - they hadn't.

Despite growing up in a two-parent household and going to college, 28-year-old Darrell Ferguson (pictured, r, with Louisville mayor Greg Fisher)  found himself struggling to pay…

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New York’s Mayor De Blasio and President Bill Clinton joined restaurateurs Marcus Samuelsson (Red Rooster) and Tren’ness Wood-Black (Sylvia’s) to announce a new food festival coming to Harlem in May of 2015. “Harlem…

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In 1964, a man named John Young started a restaurant called John Young’s Wings and Things in Buffalo, New York. Young, a farm boy from…

First, there was the Cupid Shuffle. Then there was the Wobble, then the TJ Shuffle. Now there’s a new line dance sweeping the nation –…

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The number of businesses approved to accept food stamps grew by 1/3 from 2005 to 2010, U.S. Department of Agriculture records show, as vendors from convenience and dollar discount stores to gas stations and pharmacies increasingly joined the growing entitlement program. Now, restaurants, which typically have not been allowed to participate in the program, are […]

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There’s a new winner of the reality show America’s Next Great Restaurant and he’s a Black man with a whole bunch of soul. The healthful soul food concept of former Detroit auto worker and caterer Jamawn Woods was crowned king on the season finale of the reality show Sunday. The restaurant is set to open […]