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Like many of us, Richard Williams has been figuring out how to be creative in a pandemic that limits so much of what we can do. The photographer and graphic designer is close with his family, who are based in Prince George’s County, Maryland, an affluent and largely Black suburb of Washington, DC. Williams has been photographing his family as a part of an ongoing personal project, which gave him the idea to speak with all four generations about how they feel about Black History Month. Especially after the past year, how did Black History Month look different, and were they recognizing it at all? Like any family around a proverbial dinner table, Williams’ relatives had different opinions on how and if the celebrations mattered. The visual and oral history of this one family is a fascinating look at how history in constantly evolving. How do you feel you are leaving your mark as a Black person? RW Sr. : I’m a Black man that was born in the ’50s. I was born into a … [Read more...] about Black History Month During A Pandemic, Told Through The Eyes Of One Family

The singer-actress slices and dices in Selena + Chef, debuting Aug 13 on the new HBO Max streaming service in the US. The 10-episode series was shot in the kitchen of Gomez's new Los Angeles-area house. Her grandparents and two friends, who have been quarantining with her, serve as taste testers. "I really thought this would be something lighthearted because I was getting definitely down," she said in a video conference Wednesday (Aug 5). "Of course, there's more important things going on but this was an opportunity to make something that could make people smile." Guiding Gomez remotely are chefs Nyesha Arrington, Roy Choi, Tonya Holland, Daniel Holzman, Jon & Vinny, Candice Kumai, Ludo Lefebvre, Antonia Lofaso, Nancy Silverton and Angelo Sosa. They coach her through making such dishes as Korean breakfast tacos, matcha chocolate chip cookies, spicy miso ramen, seafood tostada and cheese souffle. There was no one off-camera perfectly prepping the ingredients and Gomez didn't … [Read more...] about Selena Gomez is the new chef in town with a cooking show created during quarantine