Cassie’s Soul Food Kitchen is coming soon to Locust Street in downtown Pomona, I noticed recently. This is off a few steps north of East Second Street’s Antique Row, in the space previously occupied by the late, lamented Pomona Bakery. (Despite the sign, I’m not sure Cafe Amerisian, its first replacement, ever opened.)

There’s a new black-owned barber shop next door with a family connection to Cassie’s, I was told.