Food Justice

Residents of the Spirit Lake reservation tending their community garden. (Photo by Heidi Zeigenmeyer)

Restoring Food Sovereignty on the Spirit Lake Reservation

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03.10.20

female farmworker picking tomatoes

After #MeToo, This Group Has Nearly Erased Sexual Harassment in Farm Fields

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03.09.20

Black women eating a fine meal at Resistance Served

Resistance Served 2020 Centers the Power of Black Women in Food

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02.28.20

Jennifer Taylor and Ron Gilmore at their Georgia farm. (Photo credit: Candace Pollock Moore / SSARE)

Jennifer Taylor Educates and Advocates for Underserved Small Farms in Florida

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02.27.20

woman rage baking in protest, hands covered in flour

Women’s Rage Finds Power in Protest—and Baking

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02.03.20

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

four food justice leaders - malik yakini nina ichikawa ricardo salvador a-dae romero-briones

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

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12.10.19

pittsburgh's urban farmers

Pittsburgh Grows Urban Gardens in the Fight Against Gentrification

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12.06.19

jambalaya and jollof

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

lyla june standing in front of trees

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