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Black Churches, Powerful Cultural Forces, Set Their Sights on Food Security

Black Churches, Powerful Cultural Forces, Set Their Sights on Food Security

YES. In Baltimore, the Black Church Food Security Network is building a community-centered food system to combat food insecurity and “food apartheid” by connecting Black farmers with historically African-American churches. “We feel that apolitical and ‘color-blind’ approaches to addressing food inequity fly in the face of the statistics, which clearly show that Black people are disproportionately impacted in a negative way by food apartheid, environmental racism, and discrimination in planning and public policy,” says Brown. “To ignore these realities in [so-called] food justice work is a gross miscalculation at best.” http://bit.ly/2QcQ9pR