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Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, the creator of The New York Times's 1619 Project, said the events of the past year showed that "steps toward racial progress are always met with an intensive back
Jones Bar-B-Q should be smoking again Fund-raising to rebuild the legendary Jones Bar-B-Q Diner in Marianna seems likely to be enough to restore the James Beard award winner. A pit fire Sunday put the modest diner out of business. But owner James Jones vowed to rebuild and national attention to the fire brought an outpouring of help. Advertisement Two Go Fund Me pages have raised almost $75,000 so far and other money has been promised from separate sources, including, according to the New York Times, a $25,000 emergency grant from Southern Restaurants for Racial Progress, a program in partne...
Fire Damages Jonesâ Bar-B-Q, a Historic Black-Owned Business James Jones, the owner and pitmaster of the award-winning Arkansas restaurant, vows to rebuild. A grease fire that started in the barbecue pit of Jonesâ Bar-B-Q Diner spread to the roof and burned 70 percent of the restaurant, according to the local fire chief.Credit...Arkansas Department of Parks, Heritage and Tourism March 1, 2021 Smoke doesnât normally concern James Harold Jones. It was the flames he saw in the barbecue pit at Jonesâ Bar-B-Q Diner, his familyâs restaurant in Marianna, Ark., that made him ...
Dear Stevie: We’ve never met, but like untold millions of people around the world, I’m a huge fan. I can still remember flipping through my father’s vinyl albums as a boy and stumbling across “Songs in the Key of Life.” Your music continues to bring tremendous joy to people in all walks of life. So thank you. But I have a bone to pick. Earlier this week you wrote an open letter to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., published on the holiday that now bears his name, in which you said: “It is painful to know that needle has not moved one iota. For 36 years, we’ve had a national holiday ...
OK, OK, we get the point. But there's a small problem. Somehow, on their way to launching a neo-fascist takeover of the United States, the white supremacists ran out of whites. Simply looking at video of the Capitol riot, or looking at the FBI's wanted images afterwards, makes it obvious that the mob of Trump die-hards were multiracial. The two most famous members of the Proud Boys, America's premier 'white nationalist' group, are an Afro-Cuban and a Samoan. 'Stop the Steal' organizer Ali Alexander as black and Arab. And of course, there are November's famous exit polls, which showed that J...