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This week, the Good Food team revisits their favorite segments of the year. KJ Kearney, founder of Black Food Fridays, works to recognize the contributions of his ancestors every week.
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KJ Kearney and Anela Malik are both social media influencers, but they want to do more than serve up food porn. Malik, of travel and recipe blog Feed The Malik, and Kearney, founder of Black Food Fridays (an initiative encouraging people to order from Black-owned restaurants each Friday), have collaborated on
Fix Your Plate to bring listeners behind the scenes of their work and discuss food from a Black perspective. They’re not starting off with softballs either: Their third episode dives into the difference between receiving anti-racism training and actually putting those ideas into practice. One way this dissonance can manifest, Malik points out, is when Black creators are asked to stretch themselves thin across several projects during Black History Month but are then largely shrugged off by outlets the other 11 months of the year. As many companies that instituted anti-racism training last year continue to lack actual diversity among their staffs, Kearney puts i