The Greenwood Food Blockade

March 20, 2018

By Bobby J. Smith II For proponents, it showed the world the plight of rural Mississippi blacks and helped garner support. For opponents like the White Citizens’ Council (WCC), these elements perpetuated the dual organization of the South, which enforced white superiority and promoted black inferiority. This dichotomy is best illustrated by the sharecropping system … Continued

The Roots of Food Inequalities: Beyond the Food Desert Narrative

March 29, 2017

To create a world in which everyone has equal access to fresh, affordable, healthy food, we have to grapple with the roots of racism that produce the fruit of inequality.

Cook School: Learning New Skills in North Carolina Prisons

February 20, 2017

Meet the men taking Nancy Gould’s food service class at Orange Correctional Center.

Click Here, Read This: Cheap Eats, Cheap Labor

February 13, 2017

“Food media is never so diverse as when it runs these lists—its pages fill with names of restaurateurs and chefs of color.”

How The South Leads

January 6, 2017

“What if the South led?” Moderator John Simpkins posed this question halfway through a two-day gathering at Rivendell Writers’ Colony in Sewanee, Tennessee, which focused on how difference based on color imprints and imperils American food culture.