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Black community
Food & Drink
SnoCorner is Long Beach’s ultimate ode to the sweets of New Orleans
Snocorner—the bright, tricolorized snoball shop directly across from Poly High School—is one helluva ode to the sweet treats of New Orleans.
Events & Festivals
Anderson .Paak to perform DJ set at Juneteenth Long Beach celebration
Juneteenth Long Beach will be returning this year come Saturday, June 15 at Rainbow Lagoon Park in Downtown Long Beach—and it will be bringing DJ Pee Wee (aka Anderson .Paak) on board for a DJ set like no other.
Food & Drink
Black-owned and -operated Grilled Fraiche abruptly closes all locations—including Long Beach
Grilled Fraiche owner Peace Love has announced that Sunday, May 5 was the last day of operations for his much-loved Caribbean-meets-Californian set of restaurants—including its Long Beach location, one of the few spaces serving up Black food in a Black space.
Events & Festivals
The importance of the return of Organic Harvest Garden’s Black History Month farm dinner in Long Beach
Chef Rod Dodd, the man behind the tucked-under-a-freeway farm and garden space that is North Long Beach's Organic Harvest Gardens, is returning with his one of his most beloved and popular annual events: the Black History Month farm-to-table dinner, returning to the green space on Feb. 18.
Food & Drink
This North LB farm hosts magical dinners—and they’re about to become a monthly tradition
Chef Rod Dodd and his crew Organic Harvest Gardens have long embodied the spirit of community and food-as-a-connector—and the chef wants to extend that spirit as he invites more and more people to his humble plot for a trip to gastronomical church.
Culture & Commentary
Long Beach Lost: The cringey and strange tale of how Lucille’s Smokehouse created a fictitious Black woman for their brand
In a move that echoes the controversy surrounding Quaker Oats's creation of Aunt Jemima, Lucille's proudly admitted to creating Lucille Buchanan, a fictitious Black woman from South Carolina which inspired their barbecue. Come the BLM protests of 2020, the restaurant removed the entire story without a word.
Food & Drink
Leimert Park legend Ackee Bamboo Jamaican Cuisine hopes to open Long Beach location in May
Ackee Bamboo, one of the region's most respected Jamaican cuisine destinations, is a welcomed addition to a city that severely lacks food from the Afro-Caribbean diaspora.
Culture & Commentary
The Afro-Latino roots of L.A. is a history we should all know in light of racist comments from Latino leaders
Perturbing conversations between four Latino political leaders of Los Angeles—unveiling vile, racist comments that targets Black and Indigenous populations—are but a reminder that L.A.'s history has deep roots with Afro-Latinos.
