IN Wilmington – All You Need for Going Out #inWilm!

Wilmington community activist and local hip hop performer Richard Raw and Founder/Executive Director of the Culture Restoration Project, Inc. Shah Jannele have been together for fourteen years and married for eight, but the seeds of their love story and local activism began over twenty years ago. When Rich was a teen, Shah’s father, Olvan Jones, mentored youth, teaching community classes about Black History in his home. As one of Shah’s father’s students, Rich credits him with keeping him out of a lot of trouble. He knew Shah in those days, of course, but as Rich was a few years older, he didn’t pay much attention to her...

I had to bend a few New Year’s Resolutions and cut my Dryuary short to review the first in the Brewery-of-the-Month Dinner series at Chelsea Tavern. But if I had to boil my experience down to two words: Worth it!