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Ashley Blaine Featherson-Jenkins Celebrates Black Excellence With DIAGEO. Spelman and Morehouse College weren’t the one’s faculties to have a good time homecoming this weekend, The Mecca additionally welcomed again alumni whilst celebrating standouts excelling in their respective fields.
Howard University was once humming with Black excellence in Washington D.C.for its “Meccaverse” birthday celebration culminating with the ritzy HBCU Buzz 30 underneath 30 Reception and Alumni Bison Ball.
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Actress Ashley Blaine Featherson-Jenkins joined DIAGEO and its manufacturers CÎROC, Crown Royal, Tequila Don Julio, and Tanqueray and HBCU Buzz 30 Under 30 founder Luke Anthony Lawal, Jr to toast to the tradition and traditions of HBCUs. The duo additionally uplifted and have a good time with Black excellence, tradition, and scholarship whilst highlighting the honorees.
Together with DIAGEO each Ashley and Luke mirrored their enjoyment attending an HBCU as they handed the torch and commemorated the following technology of Black leaders who’re growing lasting exchange of their communities as a part of DIAGEO’s ongoing initiative to give a boost to an extra various long term with its $10 Million endowment fund.
A press liberates experiences that visitors loved signature cocktails from CÎROC, Crown Royal, Tequila Don Julio, and Tanqueray at Karma Lounge, then persevered the night time in the birthday celebration of Black excellence with the Inaugural Bison Alumni Ball whilst playing a song by way of DJ Jae Murphy.
As up to now reported Featherson-Jenkins informed BOSSIP that she was once taking a look ahead to some other “incomparable, exhilarating and BLACK” Howard homecoming, and he or she gushed over her alma mater that “changed her life.”
“It’s a place where as a Black person you feel incredibly seen, valued, and understood which is invaluable,” stated the celebrity.
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In Atlanta, an identical birthday celebration ensued—this time for I.W. Harper and Cam Kirk’s “Harper House” multi-city pop-up enjoy. The birthday party that came about simply earlier than Spelhouse homecoming toasted to the wealthy tradition and creatives in native communities in Atlanta in a birthday celebration of Cabernet Cask Reserve, a Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey elderly for 4 years in new charred American oak barrels, then perfected in luxurious California Cabernet Sauvignon casks.
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The particular nighttime gave again to the inventive communities shaping Atlanta tradition and featured Collective Gallery (the primary “Record” label for photographers) onsite taking pics at a portrait studio with proceeds going to the Cam Kirk Foundation.
Sounds have been courtesy of space DJ Love G and visitors loved curated Cabernet Cask Reserve cocktails by way of native mixologists Whiskey and Rosemary together with the never-before-seen “Hot Lemon Pepper Wet” cocktail.
