Philly Journalist Ernest Owens wins Best Magazine Reporting for “Dining While Black” for @PhillyMag!

We were a lively party of 13 people, devouring 13 courses of arguably the finest Southern Italian food in Philadelphia. Servers brought us family-style helpings of fried squid, octopus, roasted chicken and whole fish. They graced us with servings of gnocchi sardi, strascinati, fazzoletti, capunti, bucatini con pesto, and other pastas we’d never heard of — but that tasted so damn good nonetheless… READ MORE

I JUST WON Best Magazine Reporting for "Dining While Black" for @PhillyMag!

Thank you for every reader, activist, editor, fan, friend, and foe who talked about my award-winning work!

This is my third consecutive @NABJ Salute to Excellence Award win in two years! 🏆 #NABJ19 pic.twitter.com/b6ctosI8iT
— Ernest Owens (@MrErnestOwens) August 11, 2019

DINING WHILE BLACK: RACE AND THE PHILLY FOOD SCENE: "Perhaps we shouldn’t be talking about Black foodies striving to fit in among the segregated elite, but about embracing a new food culture altogether …" https://t.co/bfUVG6sI5M via @phillymag by @MrErnestOwens
— Tinsel & Tine (@tinseltine) August 12, 2019