Ghetto Gastro Co-founder Jon Gray on Using Food as a Tool to Connect
Bronx chef collective Ghetto Gastro is changing the culinary game while putting the BX on the map. Here, co-founder Jon Gray talks food equity and how we can all do our part to effect change.
Chinatown Pretty Celebrates Asian Elders and their Unique Style
Seven years in the making, Chinatown Pretty shares seniors’ advice on living well while staying stylish. With the recent surge of anti-Asian hate crimes, the book is a celebration of Asian joy, that reminds us of this community’s resilience. The feel good read we can all use right now, Bay Area creators Valerie Luu and Andria Lo let us in on their process and what younger people can learn from the older generation.
Meet the Artist Behind Sweet July Oakland’s Black Icon Wall
Multimedia artist and painter Micheal J Lopez lets us in on his creative process and how he designed 17 portraits honoring African American female trailblazers for Sweet July’s Oakland flagship store.
4 Family-First Habits You Gotta Keep Up Post Pandemic
Who’d ever think we’d miss strangers so much? Going to the movies. Attending that group exercise class. Spending all day roaming the corridors of the mall. We lost so many of our favorite communal pastimes over the last year that it’s easy to get excited about “outside finally opening back up.” But what about […]
SÜPRMARKT’s Olympia Auset on Building South Central’s First Organic Grocery
After struggling to find fresh foods in her neighborhood, the South LA native founded SÜPRMARKT—a subscription service and pop-up series offering organic fruits and veggies in a community with very few healthy options. Now, she’s launching the area’s first organic grocery store at an iconic location.
How One Couple is Feeding Asian Elders in a Pandemic
Through Heart of Dinner, Moonlynn Tsai and Yin Chang are delivering over 1,000 meals and care packages a week to NYC’s vulnerable Chinese population, with heartwarming messages of love attached.
How She’s Making It Work: Christina Iguodala
There are nearly 2.7 million Black women-owned businesses in the United States, making this one of the fastest-growing categories of business owners. To celebrate some of the amazing women who are contributing to this growth, we spoke with entrepreneurs from an area in Oakland area where Ayesha’s Sweet July flagship store is located. Endearingly dubbed The Block, the buzzy strip is known for its Black female-owned businesses. Here, Pillar Cowork owner Christina Igoudala shares how she got where she is, her best advice, and how she’s coped with the challenges of the last year.
Get Excited For Change
Trying something outside your comfort zone can blow up your life in amazing ways you’ve never imagined. Discover the two unconventional strategies that will motivate you to make it happen.
Meet The Makers: Christina Tegbe of 54 Thrones
Sweet July’s Meet The Makers series highlights amazing Black women-owned brands that are carried at our Oakland flagship store and e-commerce shop. Meet Christina Tegbe, whose clean beauty brand, 54 Thrones, is the luxe label you definitely need on your radar.
Cozy, sustainable homeware was inspired by a trip to Martha’s Vineyard.