Tag: Black Feast Week

Black Feast Week returns to feed restaurants new diners, combat hunger in Kansas City

By Tommy Felts / October 8, 2025

Opening Black Feast Week — designed to promote Black-owned restaurants, chefs, and culinary creativity — by feeding 150 single Black mothers for free was an intentional act of community care, said Joshua “JT” Taylor. “We’ve always tried to prioritize helping people who are most marginalized,” said Taylor, senior content producer and chief administrative officer at…

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It’s not too late to preserve KC’s Black-owned restaurants (or to enjoy Black Feast Week)

By Tommy Felts / October 9, 2024

The recent closures of Soiree, The Krave, and Privee — Black-owned restaurants that each became a staple of Kansas City’s evolving food scene — leave a clear void that can’t be ignored, said Ryan Sorrell. An initiative to help save local culinary should-be hotspots in similar danger wraps this week, but the work to promote and…

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