{"id":17127,"date":"2021-02-19T11:07:40","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T16:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/madeira\/?p=17127"},"modified":"2021-03-18T15:28:29","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T19:28:29","slug":"black-history-month-leah-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/madeira\/2021\/02\/19\/black-history-month-leah-chase\/","title":{"rendered":"Black History Month \u2013 Leah Chase"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><span>During the Civil Rights Movement, Dooky Chase\u2019s was the only upscale restaurant where African-Americans could dine. There, restaurant owner Leah Chase fed Freedom Riders and hosted meetings for the Association for the Advancement of Colored People.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Princess Tiana, from Disney\u2019s The Princess and the Frog, was based on Leah\u2019s life and was the 1st African-American princess in a Disney movie. Leah is considered to be of \u201ca generation of African-American women who set their faces against the wind without looking back\u201d, as quoted by Jessica B. Harris, author and expert on food of the African Diaspora.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Beyond her countless culinary awards, Leah has been recognized by the NAACP receiving the Weiss Award &amp; Torch of Liberty Award. Other recognitions include University of New Orleans\u2019 Entrepreneurship Award &amp; the Outstanding Woman Award from the National Council of Negro Women. Leah, along with 75 women of color, were featured in \u201cI Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><i>\u201c<\/i><\/b><b><i>In my dining room, we changed the course of America over a bowl of gumbo and some fried chicken.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>\u2014 Leah Chase<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Source: NYTimes, African American Chef\u2019s Hall of Fame<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<ul><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the Civil Rights Movement, Dooky Chase\u2019s was the only upscale restaurant where African-Americans could dine. There, restaurant owner Leah Chase fed Freedom Riders and hosted meetings for the Association for the Advancement of Colored People.\u00a0 Princess Tiana, from Disney\u2019s The Princess and the Frog, was based on Leah\u2019s life and was the 1st African-American [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":17129,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/madeira\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/madeira\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/madeira\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/madeira\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/madeira\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/madeira\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17130,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/madeira\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17127\/revisions\/17130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/madeira\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/madeira\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/madeira\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/madeira\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}