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Thanks for updating about the 3rd edition of the Family Reunion.

So much has happened in the food industry since the first one. It raised the national/international profiles of every chef, writer, and historian who was there. And really helped to strengthen the Black food ecosystem.
 

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Ben's Chili Bowl throws 65th anniversary party | NBC4 Washington​



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Aug 23, 2023
Ben’s Chili Bowl celebrated 65 years of serving up its famous half-smokes and serving the community as well. News4’s Derrick Ward reports on the block party at the original U Street NW location Tuesday afternoon
 

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The Story of Dōgon​

Chef Kwame Onwuachi is no stranger to pushing boundaries, but at his new Washington, D.C. restaurant, he will also honor them and the West African lineage that helped draw the borders of the District of Columbia. Dōgon by Kwame Onwuachi will open this spring along the revitalized Southwest waterfront at Salamander Washington DC – part of a significant hotel enhancement project. The acclaimed chef makes his highly anticipated return to the nation’s capital with a concept inspired by DC Surveyor Benjamin Banneker and his heritage to the West African Dogon tribe. Pronounced “Doh-gon,” the restaurant will serve vibrant cuisine through an Afro-Caribbean lens and draw from Onwuachi’s unique Nigerian, Jamaican, Trinidadian and Creole background. Dōgon is being designed by the architectural firm Modellus Novus.


This is the vibrancy and multi-layerdness of blackness I love to see.
 

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Wasn't Oprah first? If I recall correctly bet was indeed worth a billion, but it was split between 2 people.
 

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Wasn't Oprah first? If I recall correctly bet was indeed worth a billion, but it was split between 2 people.

Oprah became a billionaire a year after Sheila Johnson. Didn't hear much about it probably because Sheila was being overshadowed by her then husband.
 

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Wasn't Oprah first? If I recall correctly bet was indeed worth a billion, but it was split between 2 people.


Oprah was first until Shiela Johnsom divorced Bob Johnson and got 500 million:mjlol:.


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But looks like shes doing positive things and making productive moves with that money.
 

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Wasn't Oprah first? If I recall correctly bet was indeed worth a billion, but it was split between 2 people.
 

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