Grammy Museum at LA Live, 800 W Olympic Blvd, A245, Los Angeles 90015
December 15, 2018 To March 3, 2019
10:00 am To 8:00 pm
Due to popular demand, we’ve decided to extend the exhibit Chasing Trane: John Coltrane’s Musical Journey Transcended, until March 2019! Don’t miss this powerful exhibit celebrating the life and music of legendary jazz saxophonist, John Coltrane, before it closes permanently in the new year.Read more…
MOCA Pacific Design Center, 8687 Melrose Avenue, West Hollywood, CA
January 2, 2019 To February 24, 2019
11:00 am To 6:00 pm
Fly Paper is a 23-minute ensemble tribute to black Harlem and ranks with the best of Joseph’s work, featuring an unforgettable dance sequence by Ben Vereen and Storyboard P, a cozy attic jam with Lauryn Hill, seizure-type closeups of Thundercat shredding his bass guitar – and original Flying Lotus beats…Read more…
The Broadwater Theater, Lillian Way, Los Angeles, CA, USA
February 1, 2019 To March 2, 2019
8:00 pm To 10:00 pm
In rural Tennessee at the height of the Civil Rights Movement, two young African-American couples struggle to understand justice, love, and their own responsibilities.Read more…
Matrix Theatre, 7657 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles 90046
February 2, 2019 To March 3, 2019
8:00 pm To 9:30 pm
Join Black Cultural Events for our first theater event! Receive the special Black Cultural Events discount to see this great August Wilson play on February 23 at 8:00 pm. Two Trains Running comes to the Matrix Theatre in celebration of Black History month.Read more…
The Actors Group Studio Burbank, 2813 West Magnolia Boulevard, Burbank, CA
February 2, 2019 To March 30, 2019
7:00 pm To 9:00 pm
In 1971, The National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing called San Leandro, California a “racist bastion of white supremacy.” Newsweek magazine came to town. CBS aired a one-hour television documentary. The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights conducted a hearing. And then, we moved to town.Read more…
3401 West 43rd Place, Los Angeles, CA, USA
February 2, 2019 To September 14, 2019
2:00 pm To 5:00 pm
Time is Running Out of Time: Experimental Film and Video from the L.A. Rebellion and Today presents early short works of Black filmmakers and video artists in Los Angeles. Central to the exhibition is a selection from the pioneering student work of the L.A. Rebellion.Read more…
Geffen Playhouse Theater, 10886 Le Conte Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
February 5, 2019 To March 10, 2019
8:00 pm To 10:00 pm
In this electrifying exploration into the soul of an American icon, Tony and Olivier Award nominee Colman Domingo and Patricia McGregor imagine Nat “King” Cole as he faces the final Christmastime broadcast of his groundbreaking variety show and weighs the advice of his friend Sammy Davis Jr.Read more…
Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, 9390 North Santa Monica Boulevard, Beverly Hills, CA
February 5, 2019 To February 24, 2019
8:00 pm To 10:00 pm
Devastated when his New York City church kicks him out for being gay, Griffin escapes across the world to volunteer in a small village.Read more…
The Pasadena Playhouse, 39 South El Molino Avenue, Pasadena
February 5, 2019 To March 3, 2019
8:00 pm To 10:30 pm
Twenty years after its premiere, this great American musical returns to Los Angeles. Nominated for 13 Tony Awards including Best Musical, Ragtime tells the story of three families at the turn of the 20th Century in pursuit of the American dream.Read more…
WACO Theater Center, Lankershim Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, USA
February 5, 2019 To February 24, 2019
8:00 pm To 10:00 pm
“No Place to be Somebody” explores race relations, culture and the American dream at the height of the Civil Rights Movement.Read more…
Garry Marshall Theatre, 4252 West Riverside Drive, Burbank, CA
February 6, 2019 To March 10, 2019
8:00 pm To 10:00 pm
April 3, 1968. Memphis. The Lorraine Motel. Room 306. Tomorrow, it will become the scene of one of our nation’s greatest losses. But tonight, it is just another stopover motel for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.Read more…
Avenue 50 Studio, Inc., North Avenue 50, Los Angeles, CA, USA
February 9, 2019 To March 2, 2019
7:00 pm To 10:00 pm
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 9, 2019 from 7-10PM. Light refreshments will be served. Exhibition Dates: February 9 – March 2, 2019.Gallery Hours: Tues-Thurs, Sat & Sun 10AM-4PM FOUR WOMEN.Curated by Peter Woods. A Modern Look at Black Women Artists in 4 Chapters.Read more…
UCR Arts, Culver Center Of The Arts, 3834 Main Street Riverside, CA 92501
February 9, 2019 To March 31, 2019
11:00 am To 4:00 pm
UNCAGED: Hero For Higher art exhibition is a critical race design installation that actively engages with and analyzes Marvel’s Luke Cage character and his history as a representation for black masculinity in American comics culture. UNCAGED also examines Luke Cage in his various formal expressions since his creation in 1972.Read more…
El Camino College, Art Gallery, 16007 Crenshaw Blvd, Torrance, CA 90506, USA
February 11, 2019 To March 7, 2019
2:00 pm To 8:00 pm
Narrative work by: Zeal Harris, Umar Rashid, Lezley Saar, Frank J. Williams Visual Artists, Zeal Harris is known for creating seductive, caricaturesque, political, urban-vernacular, story paintings. Currently she is bicoastal between Los Angeles and Miami. She holds an MFA in Studio Art from Otis College of Art & Design.Read more…
UTA Artist Space, 403, Foothill Rd, Beverly Hills, CA, 90210 USA
February 13, 2019 To April 13, 2019
10:00 am To 6:00 pm
A new exhibition at UTA Artist Space, in part the brainchild of hip-hop impresario Kasseem “Swizz Beatz” Dean, will feature more than 20 leading contemporary African American and African diaspora artists who use elements of surrealism to contend with harsh realities of our time.Read more…
Fowler Museum at UCLA, 308 Charles E. Young Drive North, Los Angeles
February 16, 2019 To July 28, 2019
12:00 pm To 5:00 pm
This exhibition features video works by contemporary African artists who are contending with inherited political, social, and environmental realities in their respective countries. Artists Kudzanai Chiurai (b. 1981, Zimbabwe), Zina Saro-Wiwa (b. 1976, Nigeria), and Mikhael Subotzky (b. 1981, South Africa) grapple with the ramifications of colonial legacies.Read more…
Charles White Elementary School, 2401 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90057, USA
February 16, 2019 To September 15, 2019
1:00 pm To 4:00 pm
Presented at the original Otis Art Institute campus where Charles White was the first African American faculty member (now an eponymous elementary school and LACMA satellite), this companion exhibition to Charles White: A Retrospective illuminates the artist’s impact as a teacher.Read more…
A Noise Within Theatre, 3352 East Foothill Boulevard, Pasadena, CA
February 16, 2019 To April 28, 2019
7:30 pm To 10:30 pm
The Bard’s most intimate of family tragedies about the terrible force of love and the breakdown of a man who has everything—power, position, and passion—only to find his world decimated through intense mind games with his ensign.Read more…
5905 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90036
February 17, 2019 To June 9, 2019
10:00 am To 7:00 pm
The first major 21st-century museum retrospective on this famed mid-century artist, Charles White: A Retrospective traces White’s career and impact in the cities he called home: Chicago, his birthplace; New York, where he joined social causes and gained acclaim; and Los Angeles, where he developed his mature art and became…Read more…
Zebulon Café Concert, 2478 Fletcher Dr, Los Angeles, California 90039
February 19, 2019 To February 20, 2019
9:00 pm To 11:00 pm
Two nights of music with the musical collective known as Antibalas! Antibalas (Spanish for bullet-proof or anti-bullets) was conceived of in Mexico City and formed in Brooklyn New York.Read more…
World Stage Press, 4321 Degnan Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90008
February 20, 2019 To February 20, 2019
7:30 pm To 9:30 pm
The book, Out of Obscurity: Black Survivors of the Holocaust by Ashay Mathieu is a unique and fascinating poetic discourse about Black victims of Hitler. Mathieu uses her literary skills to produce Ekphrastic poetry based on the visual art work of Black Holocaust victim, Josef Nassy and the Holocaust novel, The…Read more…
February 20, 2019 To February 20, 2019
7:00 pm To 9:30 pm
Special Engagement / One Night Only! Winner of both the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar and the Palme d’Or at Canne, Marcel Camus’ Black Orpheus (Orfeu negro) brings the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice to the twentieth-century madness of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro.Read more…
Museum of African American Art, Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Mall - Macy's 3rd Floor, 4005 Crenshaw Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90008
February 20, 2019 To February 20, 2019
6:30 pm To 7:30 pm
Author, Marlon James will be in conversation with Roxanne Gay and is presented with The Aloud Program of The Library Foundation and Eso Won Books.Read more…
Ukrainian Culture Center, 4315 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
February 20, 2019 To February 20, 2019
9:30 pm To 11:30 pm
Composer and multidisciplinary icon Sun Ra wrote and stars in this Afrofuturist sci-fi film, featuring a killer free jazz soundtrack performed on camera by his Arkestra.Read more…
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3401 West 43rd Place, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Mon - Sat, 12:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Conceived and founded by artist Mark Bradford, philanthropist and collector Eileen Harris Norton, and social activist Allan DiCastro, Art + Practice (A+P) is a private operating 501(c)3 foundation based in Leimert Park, Los Angeles. A+P has three areas of focus which together embody its commitment to supporting the needs of its local foster youth while Read more »
14062 Vanowen St, Van Nuys, CA 91405
Tuesday -Thursday 11:00am - 8:00pm; Friday 11:00am- 9:00pm; Saturday-12:00 noon - 9:00pm
Mom’s Bar-B-Q House is a family owned restaurant that has been pleasing locals in San Fernando Valley and LA for over 25 years. Barbeque ribs and chicken are well prepared, marinated in Mom’s special seasoning before it reaches the grill. Cooked and smoked to perfection, pork ribs just slide off the bone and tender beef Read more »
1400 N. La Brea Avenue, Inglewood, CA 90302
Mon - Thurs 11am - 8pm; Fri & Sat 11am - 9pm; Sun Noon - 6:00
Located in the heart of Inglewood, Bayou Grille offers an authentic New Orleans taste in a charming atmosphere with friendly faces. Our menu includes Bourbon Street Po’Boys, Creole Classics, Louisiana Finger Lickers, New Orleans Style Seafood Platters and more. We are now also serving Sweet Tea and Beignets! Enjoy dining indoors or outdoors if you prefer. Read more »
4331 Degnan Boulevard, Los Angeles 90008
7:00 am - 10:00 pm Daily
Hot & Cool Cafe is now officially open and we welcome you to stop by our new cafe in Leimert Park Village. We serve fresh, exotic ground coffee, Cafe Lattes, Cappuccinos, hot and cold teas, delicious pastries, ice cream, and hot soups. Come enjoy great tastes, culture and conversation! Read more »
4326 Crenshaw Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90008
Monday - Friday 10AM-7PM Saturday & Sunday 12PM - 5 PM
At Taco Mell, we take pride in offering the most flavorful tacos. We are dedicated to serving the needs of our customers and their guests. Taco Mell started in 2011 and has grown ever since. We have catered Baby Showers, Weddings, Birthday Parties, Corporate events, Taco Tuesdays, and much much more. We serve quality tacos with Read more »
