Tennessee artist Meg Pollard is painting the town and not just red. Pollard’s creativity is on full display at WeGo Central. She describes herself as a freeform visual artist, utilizing acrylic paint and digital formats. Her artwork entitled “Swirls” was featured inside a Wego bus in 2019. “The “Swirls” artwork were cathartic for me to create; they just come out,” stated Pollard. “I’m not trying to make a swirl flow in any certain direction because it already knows where it’s supposed to go. I used to see them all the time as a child when I’d close my eyes while…
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Nashville, TN (June 8, 2021) – TV personality, singer, motivational speaker, and transformation coach, Queen Brooklyn Tankard announces her “33FOR33 Project” created to empower at-risk but ambitious girls, 12-24 years old, to start purpose-based businesses in 90 days. Queen Brooklyn has overcome adversity by the grace of God and is now compelled to help other young women overcome the same trials. Queen Brooklyn and The I Am Free Society have started The Becoming THAT Girl mentorship program which specifically provides support and resources to at-risk women and girls. Queen Brooklyn says, “Graduates will leave the program with a renewed mind,…
Troy Delone was not always an upstanding citizen. His extracurricular street activities landed him in the country’s largest maximum-security prison, Angola State Penitentiary in Louisiana, when he was 21. Though he was sentenced to double-life plus five years for two counts of armed robbery, Delone was determined to find his way out of prison via legal means. After earning his bachelor’s degree in Christian ministry while in prison, a new law gave him a glimmer of hope for a potential release. On Dec. 19, 2016, after serving 16 years, that’s just what happened. Making good on his word to better…
Over the course of a day-and-a half in late May and early June 1921, a white mob, angered by the alleged assault of a white woman by a black man, burned and looted the predominantly black Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma. The damage covered 35 city blocks, destroying nearly 200 businesses, displacing about 10,000 residents. Hundreds were killed in the Tulsa race massacre, deemed one of the deadliest riots in U.S. history. In the aftermath, Vernon African Methodist Episcopal Church was the only black-owned structure still standing in the historic Black Wall Street district. Today, the church at 311 N.…
It was breakfast time, and Wanda Armstrong was rolling out the crust for her famous peach cobbler at Evelyn’s Soul Food Restaurant, a well-known dining spot in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that’s frequented by NFL veterans, politicians and even the last astronaut to walk on the moon. By early afternoon, Armstrong has left Evelyn’s — which is named after her mother — and headed to Wanda J’s, her other restaurant in Tulsa. Located at the American Airlines maintenance facility in town, it bears the owner’s high-school nickname. In addition, Wanda’s son, Ty Walker, and five of his six daughters are cooking and…
CARSON, Calif. — Nonito Donaire made boxing history with a fourth-round KO win over defending titleholder Nordine Oubaali on May 29, making him the oldest WBC bantamweight champion and one of a very few fighters to win a world title over three different decades. “The king is back!” Donaire said to the crowd after becoming a world champion for the ninth time. He broke his own record in the 118-pound division, when, at age 35, he defeated Ryan Burnett in 2018. Burnett was forced to leave the fight in the fourth round due to a back injury. Nonito Donaire displayed a…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — It was 8:01 pm on Memorial Day 2020, when a 911 call from a Minneapolis convenience store said a customer was refusing to give back a pack of cigarettes he had bought with a counterfeit $20 bill. What happened next has become infamous: Officer Derek Chauvin knelt on the neck of the handcuffed African American man, who pleaded that he could not breathe and called out for his mother. Nine minutes and 29 seconds later, George Floyd was dead — the entire murder captured on a teenager’s cell phone. Nearby, Russell A. Pointer had just finished up…
Terron Brooks is a talented singer/songwriter who has performed alongside such music royalty as Smokey Robinson, Stephanie Mills and Michael Jackson. His time on Broadway — highlighted by his roles as Simba in “The Lion King” and Seaweed in “Hairspray”— set the stage for what would become his largest role to date, his portrayal of Motown legend Eddie Kendricks in “The Temptations.” That NBC miniseries depicted the life and times of the talented but troubled group. Brooks has also released five studio albums, with a sixth to be released this fall. Zenger News discusses the popularity of “The Temptations” film,…
WASHINGTON — The Washington, D.C., area is home to a bustling population of food trucks. Streets surrounding the city’s monuments are often lined with stationary trucks vending shawarma, hot dogs and many other foods. Clearly, the competition for such vendors is intense. Against that backdrop, Jerk At Nite began in 2013 with the experimental cooking of Denville Myrie Jr., a Jamaican student at Howard University admired by his peers for his cooking. Jerk At Nite initially seized the dearth of late-night food options in the years before meal delivery apps became popular. With the campus cafe closing at 10 p.m., there…