From Black Hands to White Mouths: Charleston’s Enslaved Cooks

August 29, 2018

Peek into the research of chef Kevin Mitchell, who earned his MA in Southern Studies this spring.

Meet Eddie: Race in Delicious Foods

July 23, 2018

In Delicious Foods, James Hannaham explores the generational effects of slavery and systemic racism.

Highway 220 Daddy Lessons

August 31, 2017

During legal segregation, guides like the Negro Motorist Green Book advised black travelers of places they could dine safely or lay their heads while on the road. My parents had their own versions of these guides in their heads, memorized after the formal end of Jim Crow.

Confessions of a Former Food Segregationist

August 29, 2017

I think about food as a sort of genealogy, an act that remembers loved ones and keeps communities alive.

Rebel Recipe: A potluck dinner lesson

July 20, 2017

“We’re hoping you would make potato salad for the dinner. That’s like, a soul food specialty, right?”

Toni Tipton-Martin at Oxford Conference for the Book

March 17, 2017

Friday March 31 at 10:30 a.m., Toni Tipton-Martin speaks about her book, The Jemima Code, at Oxford Conference for the Book.

Black Lightning

January 9, 2017

In conversation with poet Kevin Young, artist Jonathan Green discusses black bootlegging and its disappearance from the public imagination.

Black Corn

January 3, 2017

Michael Twitty speaks on the genealogy and mythology of corn among black and native American peoples in early America at SFA’s 19th annual Southern Foodways Symposium.

A Musical Story of Civil Rights in Gravy Episode 46

September 22, 2016

Booker Wright, a black waiter from Greenwood, Mississippi, became an unlikely Civil Rights hero.

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From Black Hands to White Mouths: Charleston’s Enslaved Cooks

Meet Eddie: Race in Delicious Foods

Highway 220 Daddy Lessons

Confessions of a Former Food Segregationist

Rebel Recipe: A potluck dinner lesson

Toni Tipton-Martin at Oxford Conference for the Book

Black Lightning

Black Corn

A Musical Story of Civil Rights in Gravy Episode 46

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