The Activists Working to Remake the Food System
The Activists Working to Remake the Food System
They’re committed not just to securing better meals for everyone, but to dismantling the very structures that have long exploited both workers and consumers.
From left: Jamila Norman of Patchwork City Farms, Karen Washington of Black Urban Growers and Dara Cooper of the National Black Food and Justice Alliance, photographed at Norman’s farm in Atlanta on Jan. 18, 2021.Credit.Photograph by Nydia Blas. Set design by Beth Pakradooni. Set designer’s assistant: Harry Smith.
By Ligaya Mishan
Feb. 19, 2021
AN ALTAR IS a sacred space, but you can make one anywhere, out of anything; out of what you’re given. On Dec. 5, a small group gathered in downtown Springdale, Ark., to line the cement steps of a public square with Our Lady of Guadalupe candles, chrysanthemums and white cards bearing the handwritten names of local poultry workers who had died of Covid-19. Under each name was the l