Rising up in Beverly Hills with a father who was a music trade legend and a mom who was a philanthropist and consummate banquet host, Nicole Avant had a front-row seat — at a 12-seater vintage wooden desk — to historical past.
Muhammad Ali, Ella Fitzgerald, Invoice Withers, Sidney Poitier, Hank Aaron and Don Cornelius had been common visitors who had been all the time provided her mom’s signature drink, Kir Royale.
However what Ms. Avant, 56, remembers most about her childhood house is passing the historical past on what her household referred to as “the Nice Wall,” which served as an area to honor Black American entrepreneurs, attorneys, scientists, and professors at traditionally Black faculties and universities.
Nicole Avant poses in an outside space of her house. She is carrying a leopard-print shirt and lengthy black skirt with brown boots. The outside space has a stone walkway, a number of planters and two benches.
