Growing Kale, Shifting Power and Building Food Sovereignty

Malik Yakini will share some of his experiences and lessons learned in co-founding and leading the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network. He will share his thinking about America’s colonial legacy, the country’s ongoing racial oppression and how those factors shape land ownership, food, agriculture and economics. He will also share how the programs and initiatives of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network and the National Black Food and Justice Alliance are building food sovereignty.
This event is part of the Environmental Humanities Speaker Series at the Humanities Research Center, co-hosted by the ICA. Co-sponsors for this event include Virginia Humanities, the School of World Studies, and Sociology at VCU.