Coming Back Together: A Taste of Black ‘Cuse
August 9th-11th, 2019
Black-Owned Syracuse Hosted Syracuse’s First ever 3-day Black food & drink festival August 9th-August 11th.
Official hashtag: #TasteBlackCuse
The festival was the end of the first ever #BlackJoySYR Week:
August 4th-11th, 2019
2019 Vendors
Food & Drink Vendors
A Taste of Africa Owner: Saida Balume
Jus Juice It LLC Owner: Anthony Huddleston
Mechita’s Kitchen Owner: Melissa Vargas
Our Secret Delights Owner: Sabrina Calhoun
Stoic Tea’s and Sea Moss Owner: Devonn Dunbar
Top Notch Catering Experience by Chef Day Howard
The Soul Food Extension Owner: Mercedes Jones
Winnie’s Soul Delicious Owner: Dawn Evette Reed
Non-Food Vendors
Aroze Through Consulting Owner: Certified Life Coach Tyrone Dixon
Artsy Amiah Artist: Amiah Crisler
Beauty by Ahmari Owner: Ahmari Armstrong
Britton Art Artist: Andre Britton
Honey Lush Naturals Owner: Aya Green
In My Image Children’s Clothing Boutique Owner: Tafara Simmons
Juice and Berries Haircare Products Owner: Venette Griffin
Leanna’s Art Room Owner: Leanna Chapman
Lyfe Ball Lemonade Owner: Lyfe Ball
Tru Soundz Entertainment Owner: Travis Robinson
The Festival
Stay tuned for more pictures!
Thank you to our food vendors! #TasteBlackCuse 
Thank you to the local entrepreneurs who sold their products and services! #BuyBlackSYR 
Thank you to our young entrepreneurs! #BuyBlackSYR 
Thank you to our guests, vendor helpers, volunteers and staff! #BlackJoySYR 
Thank you to the festival sponsors! #BuyBlackSYR 
Thank you to our door prize sponsors! #BuyBlackSYR
2019 Festival Sponsors
Note from Black-Owned Syracuse Founder
Shavon S. Greene
The idea of “Coming Back Together: A Taste of Black ‘Cuse” was born last winter when I was filling up my yellow composition notebook with ideas for Black-Owned Syracuse.
Black people have always been innovators in the food and drink industry (“and everything”), but that is not accurately reflected in representation, leadership or business ownership. This is simply our response to that. We are excited with the response since we announced the festival in April. This is one of our first annual food events.
We are happy to have hosted about 500 guests for our first annual Black food & drink festival! Some food vendors sold out! We enjoyed karaoke, face painting for kids and adults, buy Black and local from local entrepreneurs (#BuyBlackSYR), games and music! See you next year: August 7th-9th, 2020! #TasteBlackCuse
Xo,
Shavon 💋
Door Prize Sponsors
Stay tuned for information about our second annual Black food & drink festival:
Coming Back Together: A Taste of Black ‘Cuse (August 7th-9th, 2020)!
If you have any questions, email Shavon (founder) at BlackOwnedSyracuse@gmail.com or Tonia (event coordinator) at EventsforBOS@gmail.com!
A Taste of Black 'Cuse 
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