, a nonprofit foundation with a mission to empower vulnerable communities to become self-sustaining through culinary and cultural arts.
“We said let’s create a cultural celebration center that’s about all things that come from this amazing, historic neighborhood,” Williams said.The ballroom that once hosted great musicians the likes of Ella Fitzgerald, B.B. King, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, and Etta James, will now come under the direction of Lucille’s 1913, the philanthropic arm of Lucille’s Hospitality.