RiCkO's Churro Bar opens in NoDa on Sunday, Aug. 11. Why it matters: ... "I built this for [my mom]," Ortiz explained while pointing at a mural of his mother inside the restaurant.

The Noda mural was promptly rejected because Negro cotton pickers were shown wearing turtlenecked sweaters and creased trousers, because the creature pulling a poor blackamoor’s farm cart seemed ...