Writer and scholar Alexis Pauline Gumbs makes greens almost every day: chard, kale and — this time of the year — heaping pots of vegan collard greens. Gumbs, author of the recent Audre Lorde biography Survival is a Promise and a thinker who delights in the natural world, finds something meditative about “the process of […]
Cynthia Greenlee
Dr. Cynthia Greenlee is a historian, James Beard Award winning-food writer, longtime journalist and lead editor of "The Echoing Ida Collection," an anthology of Black writers on reproductive justice. See her work at www.cynthiagreenlee.com.
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The Push to Rename Black-Eyed Peas and Reclaim African Heritage
Bonnetta Adeeb sighs heavily when she hears the term “cowpea.” Seconds pass while she decides how to respond. Will it be the modulated, kind but firm response of the former teacher of 37 years she is? Or will she show some of her vexation at “that word,” which she avoids as if it leaves an […]