black holidays
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My Ancestors Want Me to Make a Banana Pudding for Juneteenth [Updated]
My mother hated to cook. She was a good cook when it came to things she liked—rice, chicken, all kinds of soul food and sweet desserts—and a bad cook for things she didn’t understand or eat. For years, I thought steak was supposed to be tough like shoe leather and chewier than gum. I thought…
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WATCH: #SleighTheGame: How Much Do You Know About the Holidays?
The holidays are for food, family and fun, so we’re giving you an extra dose of the latter as we play #SleighTheGame, which is basically holiday trivia. We tapped our social media guy, Corey Townsend and one of our biggest supporters, Ty Alexander of Gorgeous in Grey and asked them to show us just how…
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What My Father and Juneteenth Taught Me About Having ‘Expectations’
I wouldn’t know Juneteenth without my father. He’s the Texan. He grew up celebrating the holiday that started on June 19, 1865, when slaves on Galveston Island, Texas, finally learned they’d been freed under the Emancipation Proclamation two years prior. Even though he now lived in St. Louis, he’d always make the same jokey reference…