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Celebrate Juneteenth at The National Museum for African American History and Culture

Jordan Wright June 17, 2022 Special to The Zebra

Photos Courtesy of Restaurant Associates

Freedom Day, Juneteenth, marks the moment in United States’ history on June 19, 1865 when the remaining 250,000 enslaved African Americans in Confederate states were […]

Interview with Ramin Coles

Interview with Ramin Coles

Executive Chef of Sweet Home Café at The Natual Museum of African American History and Culture June 18, 2022 Jordan Wright Special to The Zebra

Photos Courtesy of Restaurant Associates

New Jersey native and longtime DC Metro area resident, Executive Chef Ramin Coles started out at […]

Jersey Boys

Jersey Boys

The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts June 17, 2022 Jordan Wright

Photo/Joan Marcus

In an era when Motown was delivering hit after hit and Black singing groups ruled the charts, a quartet of Italian kids from the blue-collar town of Belleville, NJ began their journey to stardom. Most […]

Nollywood Dreams

Nollywood Dreams

Round House Theatre Jordan Wright June 15, 2022 Special to The Zebra

Yao Dogbe (Gbenga Ezie), Ernaisja Curry (Ayamma Okafor), Renea Brown (Dede Okafor), and Joel Ashur (Wale Owusu) (Photo/Margot Schulman)

Fact: Fashioned after India’s Bollywood film industry, Nollywood is the second most productive film industry in the world […]

Prelude to a Kiss

Prelude to a Kiss

The Little Theatre of Alexandria Jordan Wright Special to the Alexandria Times June 7, 2022

Brianna Goode (Rita), Smithchai Chutchainon (Peter) (Photo/Matthew Randall)

A nifty little romantic fantasy this way cometh from The Little Theatre of Alexandria. Prelude to a Kiss is the perfect antidote needed to […]

A Monster Calls

A Monster Calls

The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Jordan Wright May 31, 2022 Special to The Zebra

Photo/Manuel Harlan

Don’t be confused by the title of this play and the fact that the author, Patrick Ness, a multi-award-winning writer of children and adult literature whose work went into Spiderman […]