Rising up in Beverly Hills with a father who was a music business legend and a mom who was a philanthropist and consummate ceremonial dinner host, Nicole Avant had a front-row seat — at a 12-seater vintage wooden desk — to historical past.
Mohammed Ali, Ella Fitzgerald, Invoice Withers, Sidney Poitier, Hank Aaron and Don Cornelius had been common company who had been at all times 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 known 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 residence. She is sporting a leopard-print shirt and lengthy black skirt with brown boots. The out of doors space has a stone walkway, a number of planters and two benches.
