Beth DAddono

HIS VISION
The subject matter is mostly Black folks living country life on plantations in the rural South. There are scenes of church suppers, family life, a boucherie. Big Mama—a large, round woman in a headwrap—shows up a lot, captured hanging clothes, cooking, taking a bath standing in a galvanized tub. He paints contemporary scenes, too, of things he’s seen, like a young Black man getting arrested and folks lined up at the Whitney Bank.
SELF-TAUGHT
He’s never taken an art lesson, instead ...

To see Dr. Erin Boh now, in her roles as teacher, leader, administrator, data-driven diagnostician and most importantly, caring physician, it seems as if her path to medicine was always clear. But despite carrying the weighty title of chair of the department of dermatology at Tulane University School of Medicine, this doctor found her way […]

When it comes to glam, Palm Springs is the crowning jewel of the Coachella Valley’s nine desert cities. Flanked by the rugged San Jacinto Mountains and the otherworldly landscapes of Joshua Tree National Park, nearby cities such as Rancho Mirage and Palm Desert have their own charm—but only Palm Springs was the preferred playground of Hollywood’s elite during the Golden Age of cinema.
Located just 109 miles east of Los Angeles, this sun-drenched oasis became a haven for marquee headliners, wh...

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A City Transformed
Chattanooga’s impressive success story is tied to its polluted past, long dependent upon an economy fueled by heavy manufacturing and steel mills. In 1969, CBS broadcaster Walter Cronkite announced a report from the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare that labeled the city as America’s dirtiest, the “worst city in the nation for particulate air pollution.”
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When GW Fins opened in 2001 in the French Quarter, founders Tenney Flynn and Gary Wollerman wanted a white tablecloth restaurant that treated seafood like steak. The pair had worked together at the Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse chain and felt that seafood wasn’t given the fine dining respect that prime beef commanded.
Chef Michael Nelson, who became the restaurant’s sous chef in 2005 and executive chef in 2016, took that vision and ran with it.
Nelson, a native of Chicago who attended culinary scho...

If not now, when?
While 2020 had so many life altering implications, it will forever be defined as the year that Black Lives Matter became a rallying cry and “I can’t breathe” a collective dirge.
Black change makers are passionate about a host of social ills that affect their community. The common thread that unites each of them is the urgent business of making a difference, to push back against ignorance and systemic racism with revolutionary results always the end game.
These six change mak...