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The Melanin Martha wants Black food to triumph over its trauma by Mike Sula

Jordan Wimby was the only Black kid on her Beverly block, and she ate like everyone else: Lunchables, Tyson chicken nuggets, TV dinners, and frozen potpies. "Growing up I was surrounded by this conversation of racism, oppression, colonialism," says Wimby, whose mother and grandparents were teachers (most of them CPS) who specialized in American and […] The post The Melanin Martha wants Black food to triumph over it…

SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 07:00AM on June 8, 2022

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