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Kristin Kitchen Interviews With Roland Martin
Journalist, Columnist, and Commentator Roland Sebastian Martin was born November 11, 1968 in Houston, Texas’ Third Ward, the center of Houston's African American community. Roland’s mother and father where his role-models growing up and his father was an avid...
Kristin Kitchen Interviews With Roland Martin
Journalist, Columnist, and Commentator Roland Sebastian Martin was born November 11, 1968 in Houston, Texas’ Third Ward, the center of Houston's African American community. Roland’s mother and father where his role-models growing up and his father was an avid...
Freeman Vines and the Hanging Tree Guitars
"Anybody got some old wood with some type of character, like a root, stuff like that intrigues me. I can’t stand for them not to sell it to me. They can find some old plank from those old mills around here and, man, I had to have it." -Freeman Vines Luthier and...
Where You Live in Miami Can Determine Your Lifespan
If a person is living in the area around the Overtown Metro-Rail station, on average they’ll die more than ten years before a person living around the Brickell Metro-rail station. It’s a short train ride and it takes a decade off people’s lives. Published...
Jazz Legend Cab Calloway House Demolished
Former Baltimore house of jazz legend Cab Calloway demolished despite activists’ push By SAMEER RAO and WILBORN P. NOBLES III BALTIMORE SUN | SEP 05, 2020 AT 9:08 PM Steven Reed, who lives in the neighborhood where Cab Calloway's house sits, says it's not right that...
Celebrating International Women
Erica Vernet Knowles shares an intimate conversation with Kristin Kitchen about her experience as an African American business owner. Kristin provides insight into the importance of Black women in our history and a seat at the table. Kristin shares how Black women...
Miamians Who Shine
Kristin Kitchen, Owner of Dunns-Josephine Hotel Miami Dade recognizes Kristin as a person who shows compassion and the need to help others in the midst of a national pandemic. She works with community leaders to provide shelter for the homeless and displaced. Her...