Advocates, policymakers, and neighbors across Washington, D.C. are working to create a city where everyone can exercise their right to grow, sell, and eat healthy food. As this food justice movement grows, it is important to understand the forces and the people who have brought us to this current moment.
Washingtonians have experiences and confronted a series of challenges to the food system over the past severn decades-- segregation, the 1968 Riots and the chronic disinvestment in city infrastructure that followed, waves of poverty and crime, and more.
How did the District's black communities respond to these challenges? How are they adapting and responding to food access inequity and displacement in the city today?
This collection of oral histories explores these questions through the words of Washingtonians who have helped define the city's food system via agriculture, entrepreneurship, and cooperative organizing in black communities.
Click below to explore their stories!
Thanks to DC Greens and the Humanities Council of Washington, DC for supporting this project.
Washingtonians have experiences and confronted a series of challenges to the food system over the past severn decades-- segregation, the 1968 Riots and the chronic disinvestment in city infrastructure that followed, waves of poverty and crime, and more.
How did the District's black communities respond to these challenges? How are they adapting and responding to food access inequity and displacement in the city today?
This collection of oral histories explores these questions through the words of Washingtonians who have helped define the city's food system via agriculture, entrepreneurship, and cooperative organizing in black communities.
Click below to explore their stories!
Thanks to DC Greens and the Humanities Council of Washington, DC for supporting this project.
