Kahja interviews Keem Hughley
With the landscape of Black fine dining experiences present now more than ever, DC native and James Beard Award nominee Keem Hughley is proving that you don't have to go off to new places to create them, bringing his elevated concept Bronze to the historic H Street corridor, where he's carved a unique niche, anchoring the story of the restaurant and its food in the premise of Afro-futurism.
This week, Kahja talks with Keem about the legacy of Black fine dining in DC, the art of having foresight into creating concepts ahead of trends that invite diners to have new and elevated experiences, using food and storytelling as a medium for creative liberation, allowing Afro-futurism to be a place to take creative license and use revisionist history in our favor, and the need for communities to focus on what's going well as a means to create more of what we want to see.
Recorded on location at Bronze in Washington, DC
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