What do social media–driven protests have in common with food access efforts in post-Katrina New Orleans, or with racial coding at mid-century fast food chains? Find out in this issue.

• A Bronzeville Lunch–John T. Edge
• Golden Arches & White Spaces–Angela Jill Cooley
• Mexico and the South–Gustavo Arellano
• Why Study Food Justice?–Catarina Passidomo
• “It Came From the Bottom Up”–as told to Lora Smith by Ralph Paige
• The Old Foundry–as told to Sara Wood by Heaverd Dobbs Oxendine Jr.
• Will Campbell’s All-Purpose Sauce
• 26’81’–photographs by Joshua Dudley Greer
• I Would Prefer not to–Michael Oates Palmer
• Inscription for Air–Jake Adam York