
- Smallwood-Cuevas Leads Summit to Create Equitable Access to Good Jobs in Emerging Industries
- Cal State Dominguez Hills Basketball Breaks Records, Makes History
- Recovery and Rebuild Conference Informs with Workshops
- Altadena Rebuilding Conference Focuses on ‘The Hope We Hold’
- Marguet Miller Named Athletic Director of Southwest College
- Kyle Abraham and A.I.M. Bring Bold, Boundary-Pushing Dance to The Wallis
- Marquita Goings Breaks Through in ‘Beyond the Gates’
- Javonte Rose, the Multi-Hyphenate, Speaks on Art, Beauty, and Becoming
10th annual Taste of Soul


StarQuest 4 Kids Finalist: Kameron Diaz

StarQuest 4 Kids Finalist: Jazmine Huffmon

StarQuest 4 Kids Finalist: Bronze Rose

StarQuest 4 Kids Finalist: Angela Munoz

StarQuest 4 Kids Finalist: Alexis Shafira

StarQuest 4 Kids Finalist: Emmanuel Hernandez

Southern California McDonald’s® Announces Community Partnership and Local Talent Line-Up For Taste of Soul Family Festival
Jackie Gouche Southern California McDonald’s is bringing hope, inspiration and fellowship to the 10th Annual Taste of Soul Family Festival by presenting the Brenda Marsh-Mitchell Gospel Stage. In addition to the McDonald’s® Inspiration Celebration® Gospel Tour, local gospel talent from Los Angeles and the Inland Empire will be hitting the stage to kick off the day. Taste of Soul attendees can expect to hear uplifting music from Donald Taylor and the Los Angeles Mass Choir, Brent Jones with the KJLH Radio Free Performance Choir, the Holman United Methodist Church Quartet and many others. Jay Frazier “We are overjoyed to present

Kim Kimble is Coming To Taste of Soul
The in-demand stylist brings her skills and techniques for display at the Taste of Beauty Pavilion

Taste of Soul Celebrates Turning 10
Taste of Soul celebrates 10 years of bringing the community food, fun and unity

729 BEaUty Joins Taste of Beauty Pavilion
The local salon’s system is bringing a new dimension to hair

Come Home To Kizure
Kizure Iron works founders Jerry & Lucky White honored at 10th Annual Taste of Soul Festival. Jerry and Lucky White, founders of Kizure Iron Works Kizure, the Los Angeles-based hair care company started by husband and wife team, Mr. Jerry and Lucky White in 1972, began with the famous, if not ubiquitous, Afro pick as their introduction to the Black hair industry. One of the first Black-owned beauty suppliers, the White’s opened their first place of business in Central Los Angeles where they enjoyed great success with their production of a the classic Kizure curling irons and pressing combs. While

Watch out for the WAVE of old school music at Taste of Soul
The Taste of Soul (TOS) Family Festival is a day full of unlimited food choices, celebrity sightings and endless sounds of music. 94.7 The Wave has brought in the funk at TOS for seven years and this year they will bring it back one more time. The festival is officially nine days away and the lineup for The Wave stage has been announced. Since 2008, The Wave has been a media partner with the Taste of Soul Festival providing some of music’s most legendary acts. This year they are celebrating TOS’s tenth anniversary by taking music lovers back to the

DaRico Jackson…Master Celebrity Hair Stylist
The styling virtuoso will bring his skills to the 10th Annual Taste of Soul

Taste of Beauty Pavilion Presents: Patric Bradley
The one-of-a-kind hairstylist will be working his magic at the Taste of Soul’s Beauty Pavilion