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Black Joy, Culture

28 Days of Black Joy: Harold's Chicken Shack

In 1950, Harold Pierce decided to channel the divine power of a praying Black grandma and founded Harold’s Chicken Shack and introduced us to a uniquely seasoned bucket of freshly fried chicken, accompanied by a divine red-orange liquid creation. That divine creation is called mild sauce (Yes, D.C., I will never miss the opportunity to…

By

Tonja Renée Stidhum

Published

February 8, 2021
America’s Blackest City, News, Opinion

'Kill Moe, Y'all Bammas Trippin': DC Is the Blackest City In America

As the story goes, around 1975, God was having a conversation with a few of his apostles about the blackest city in America. The winner would have an anthem recorded by arguably the blackest group of that time. The conversation didn’t last long as it went something like, “Oh, it has to be Birmingham or…

By

Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

Published

February 11, 2019
Politics

Dear DC Mayor Muriel Bowser, You Can Be Wrong but You Can’t be Loud and Wrong About Mumbo Sauce

Many years ago I remember getting into an argument with a friend about the documentary, Waiting for Superman, the 2010 documentary that looks at the American public school system. The argument wasn’t about the specifics of the film at all. The argument was about how well-known the documentary was. I argued that because I’d never…

By

Panama Jackson

Published

November 21, 2018