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Slade’s Bar & Grill has been serving drinks and mouthwatering soul food to the folks living in the South End and Lower Roxbury neighborhoods for over seven decades. During that time, dignitaries, sport stars, presidents and war heroes have been a part of Slade’s celebrated history. Saying they wanted to give the Roxbury and South End communities a better place to relax, Ivan Payamps and Ramon Genao, purchased Slade’s Bar and Grill, one of Boston’s oldest black-owned nightclubs.
Once owned by Celtics legend Bill Russell during the 1960s, Slade’s traces its history back to the 1930s and claims many jazz greats and famous patrons, including heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis and President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Former owner Frank Williams said he inherited the popular nightspot in 1998 when his father, Frank Williams Sr., died. Williams Sr. had purchased the club from Russell back in the ’60s. “I lost a little of ...