Food Justice

At Soul Fire Farm, a BIPOC-centered community farm, farmers learn regenerative methods such as heavy mulching and intercropping. Photo from Soul Fire Farm

Black Farmers Are Embracing Climate-Resilient Farming

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01.20.20

Rev. Floyd D. Harris Jr. harvests cabbage from Freedom School Fresno’s demonstration farm. (Photo © Joan Cusick)

Our Best Food Justice Stories of 2019

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12.26.19

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Food & Race: 10 Years of Creating a More Just Food System

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12.10.19

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Pittsburgh Grows Urban Gardens in the Fight Against Gentrification

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12.06.19

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400 Years After the Slave Trade Began, Tracing the Roots of Jambalaya to Jollof

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12.05.19

Members of the Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust. (Photo by Matt Feinstein)

A New Generation of Black Farmers Is Returning to the Land

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11.27.19

At the farmers' market on the Hopi reservation.

Fighting Food Colonialism in the Hopi Nation

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11.20.19

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The Native Musician and Poet Revitalizing Indigenous Food Sovereignty

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11.07.19

Eric Jackson in Cherry Hill. (Photo by Jesse James DeConto)

Baltimore is at the Vanguard of a National Black Vegan Movement

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11.05.19

Protesters outside Aramark headquarters. (Photo by Sophia Epstein)

Institutional Food Has a Sourcing Problem. This Coalition is Trying to Fix It.

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10.25.19

Ian Urbina author photo © Jabin Botsford 2019

Wage Theft, Slavery, and Climate Change on the Outlaw Ocean

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09.27.19

Gail Taylor on her D.C. urban farm. (Photo © Lise Metzger.)

The Woman Leading the Way for Urban Farming in the Nation’s Capital

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09.26.19

Water protectors of all persuasions gathered in talking circles at Borderland Ranch in Pe’Sla, the heart of the sacred Black Hills, during the first Sovereign Sisters Gathering. At the center are Cheryl Angel in red and white and on her left, Lyla June.

The Women of Standing Rock Are Building Sovereign Food Economies

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08.30.19

The remodeled exterior of Hank's Mini Market.

Bringing Fresh Produce to LA’s Corner Stores Alone Won’t Solve Food Inequality. But it’s a Start.

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08.19.19

Southwest Georgia Project for Community Education Executive Director Shirley Sherrod stands in a pecan orchard at New Communities in Dougherty County, Georgia in May 2019. Photo by Mike Kane for Marguerite Casey Foundation's Equal Voice News.

How a Black Farming Community Found Justice

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08.16.19

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Can Food Forests Fight Hunger?

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08.14.19

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Meet the Women Building Political Power for Farmworkers in the Central Valley

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08.12.19

Cherisse Jones-Branch. (Photo courtesy of Arkansas State)

Preserving Food, Practicing Politics: The Undercover Activism of Black Women in Rural Arkansas

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08.01.19