Black celebrities articles
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Black Food Truck Festival celebrates Black-owned businesses
Now in its third year (and fifth event), the Black Food Truck Festival (BFTF) has grown into an impressive showing of not only Black food trucks, but of a community hungry for more opportunities to celebrate Black-owned businesses. The festival takes place April 26 through April 28, with an opening night event held on Friday […]
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Black, Black-biracial student celebration set for May 25
A first-ever celebration of local Black, and Black-biracial public, private and home-schooled students’ accomplishments will be held at 7 p.m. May 25 at the Columbus Learning Center, 4555 Central Ave. in Columbus. Continue reading at The Republic News.
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A New Photo Book Celebrates the Style and Athleticism of America's Black Cowboys
Even though he grew up riding horses in Kansas City, photographer Ivan McClellan never identified with cowboy culture. That changed in the summer of 2015, when McClellan attended his first Black rodeo in Oklahoma, an experience he’s compared to stepping into his own Technicolor Oz. McClellan (who’s based in Portland, Oregon) spent the next few years traveling around the country, meeting the people who would later be featured in his new photo book Eight Seconds: Black Rodeo Culture, which Damiani...