A brief history of how dinner parties became a symbol of black joy. - NBCBLK
Bevy Smith, from right, dines with guests at "Dinner With Bevy" hosted by P&G's My Black is Beautiful to kick off Essence Music Festival with community partners Black Girls Rock and UNCF in New Orleans on July 5, 2012.Ten years ago, host and social entrepreneur Bevy Smith became known for her dinner parties in New York, which she called “Dinners with Bevy.
Bevy Smith, from center, mingles with guests at "Dinner With Bevy" hosted by P&G's My Black is Beautiful to kick off Essence Music Festival with community partners Black Girls Rock and UNCF in New Orleans on July 5, 2012.“The reason why my dinner parties are successful is because I’m really actively interested in people and I’m interested in diverse types of people.
In 1926, the poet Countee Cullen wrote in"From the Dark Tower:" “We shall not always plant while others reap. The golden increment of bursting fruit. Not always countenance, abject and mute, that lesser men should hold their brothers cheap.” Cullen, a Harlem native and a patron saint of the Harlem Renaissance, wrote the poem about the hardship, hope and beauty of being black after Reconstruction, but before the civil rights movement.
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