Twenty-five years ago, in an apartment in Detroit,MI, five friends joined forces to open their own restaurant after receiving a $4,000 tax refund. The group sat and began to throw out ideas on what type of restaurant it should be. Cole Brown, one of the five friends who was a…
We lost a cultural icon today. Born John Weatherspoon, went by John Witherspoon, but to us he was Pops. John Witherspoon had been in this game for over forty years. Witherspoon got his start as a model but moved towards stand-up comedy in the 1960s/70s. His first TV appearance was…
Black Like Vanilla has been doing the “A Book A Month Challenge” for about a year and a half on our Instagram page. Originally set up as a challenge to encourage our black brothers & sisters to read at least one book a month, it was not set up to…