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Public health nutritionist and author Tracye McQuirter helped more than 15,000 Black women go vegan in 2020 through her 21-day online program, 10,000 Black Vegan Women. McQuirter created the free program as a resource to provide nutritional guidance and support to Black women, who experience the highest rate of preventable chronic diseases, including heart disease, diabetes, and certain cancers, in the United States. Her initial goal was to help 10,000 women and she hit that goal with 10,000 sign-ups one week before the program’s official launch last year.
The 10,0000 Black Women program offers cooking videos, meal plans, vegan recipes, grocery shopping lists, meal prep guides, and nutrition tips. It also marked the creation of a new community for Black women to gain the support they needed to go vegan. At the end of the 21-day program, McQuirter surveyed more than 600 women who participated. Among the results, she found that 82 percent completed the entire 21-day program,
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To celebrate Black History Month in February, national non-profit organization Afro-Vegan Society (AVS) has launched Veguary. The month-long campaign offers a series of free programs highlighting the contributions of Black vegan trailblazers and challenging people to commit to vegan living for February.
The event will include more than 20 Black vegan speakers, including Olympian Seba Johnson; Milton Mills, MD, who was featured in the vegan documentary
What the Health; celebrity chef Rain Truth; and certified holistic nutritionist Ruby Lathon. Some of the themes they will explore include the legacy of plant-based traditions in Black communities, plant-based health and wellness, making plant foods accessible in marginalized communities, and veganism as a part of a holistic world view to resisting oppression in all of its forms.