Percell Keeling News Today

For Black Angelenos, Simply Wholesome is a destination, like Disneyland or Santa Monica. It has been serving its community for more than 40 years. Owner Percell Keeling shares the business' pivotal moments and why Black health and ownership is paramount.

Few people came to symbolize the frustration, fear and anger of restaurant owners to the ban on outdoor dining than Angela Marsden, owner of Pineapple Hill Saloon & Grill in Sherman Oaks. When Los Angeles County imposed the rules in the wake of a deadly spike in COVID-19 in November, she became world famous for a video she posted in which she tearfully described how the ban was upending her business and questioning the fairness of closing her down while catering services for a Hollywood shoot o...