Fort Worth celebrates Juneteenth with citywide celebrations featuring parades, music festivals, educational events and more. It is an opportunity for reflection, learning and reinforcement of community. Fort Worth is the home of Opal Lee, affectionately known as the “Grandmother of Juneteenth.”…
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Scotty Scott’s journey in food led him from blogger to book author. Growing up in Detroit, Fort Worth-based, self-taught chef Scotty Scott discovered his passion for cooking at a young age. As an adult his hobby of cooking for friends and family at gatherings turned into personal chef services due…
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When Sedrick and Letitia Huckaby opened Kinfolk House on the Eastside, they did so with the community in mind. The nonprofit art space hosts exhibitions, but the Huckabys ask guest artists to subsidize those shows with public events like artist talks. “We focus on what we call projects,” Letitia…
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As a teenager, Brandi Waller-Pace felt left out from depictions of American music. The fiddle, banjo, and other quintessential American instruments were often associated with white musicians. It was only through her studies at Howard University and scholarly research afterward that Waller-Pace…
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When Pastor Kyev Tatum called for the renaming of New Mount Rose Missionary Baptist Church’s chapel, he did it in part to remind the broader Fort Worth community of its historic ties to a renowned gospel songwriter. Tatum noted that Elvis Presley is forever tied to Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee…
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Howdy, partners. I’d like to take this time to share with you something that is near and dear to my heart, and that’s the history of the black cowboy. In addition, I’d love to share how the historical events pertaining to them have greatly influenced the modern-day drover. As a drover for the Fort…
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The Yellowstone franchise continues to spur prequels, and large portions of the most recent spinoff — 1883: The Bass Reeves Story — were recently filmed in Fort Worth. Starring Emmy-nominated David Oyelowo as Bass Reeves, the legendary lawman of the Wild West, 1883: The Bass Reeves Story aims to…
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At 26, Fort Worthian Rikki Kelly is already a force to be reckoned with. She's not at all what you might imagine an enterprising tequila proprietor would look like, in fact she’s just the opposite. Kelly is a young, Black woman educated as an accountant turned tequila entrepreneur. “I am actually a…
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Paula Drummond, the Director of Sales & Marketing at the Hyatt Place TCU, is a woman at the top of her game in the hospitality industry. Drummond, who grew up in Fort Worth, has a degree in Bachelor of Applied Arts & Sciences with a focus on Hotel and Restaurant Management from the University of…
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If there ever was a person who provides proof to Walt Disney’s oft-quoted phrase “If you can dream it, you can do it,” that person is Jill Darden…
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