The final home of legendary writer and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston has been saved from disrepair and is now set to be preserved as a cultural landmark.

During this year’s ESSENCE Festival of Culture™, the Food and Wine stage became the site of a powerful and much-needed conversation about Black visibility in the wine world.

During the pandemic, Rhandi and Jonathan Altidor saw an unmet need in the food delivery market — the absence of Black-owned grocers.