How lessons from the Black Panthers could change the food movementvia Grist writer Nathaniel Johnson

How lessons from the Black Panthers could change the food movement

viaGristwriterNathaniel Johnson

“I’d just read about the Black Panther’s history in a new book, More Than Just Food. In it, the [Fordham professor] and activist Garrett Broad argues that food is a powerful tool, but that the food movement has mostly benefited well-to-do white people. Impoverished communities need food movements that rise up from within and champion their own priorities.

“Broad takes the Black Panther Party as one of his case studies. He traces the historical line from the Black Panther’s breakfast program to the anti-hunger efforts of an offshoot, Community Services Unlimited, a nonprofit that still operates in Los Angeles, to schools serving breakfast today. The fact that many children can get breakfast at public school may well be thanks to a revolutionary act that brought down the fury of Hoover’s FBI.”

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