Grady’s prolific archive highlights figures in African American history including scholars, musicians, and architects, and documented Philadelphia’s place in the Civil Rights Movement and hip-hop.
Community organizing led Dominique Hazzard to research the history of food inequity, a discipline that, in turn, fueled in her an even stronger drive to advocate for change
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An Anacostia Community Museum Exhibit Explores Food Issues
The outdoor installation is a companion to a larger exhibit that s been delayed. Share
The Food for the People art installation opened on the Anacostia Community Museum Plaza. Photo courtesy of Samir Meghelli.
In all of Ward 8, there is only one grocery store which serves 85,000 residents. That kind of inequality is addressed in the Anacostia Community Museum‘s new outdoor art exhibit,
Food for the People: Eating and Activism in Greater Washington. “The DC area faces food justice issues, particularly around food insecurity and related issues like access to grocery stores and affordable, healthy food,” said Samir Meghelli, chief curator of the Anacostia Community Museum. “Particularly, where we are in Ward 8 faces one of the greatest inequities around food access.”
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