Episode 4: Myths About Black Food with Dominique of Plots and Pans

Episode 4: Myths About Black Food with Dominique of Plots and Pans

This month's episode dispels three popular myths about Black food. The guest is Dominique Charles, founder of Plots and Pans [https://www.myplotsandpans.com/], and fab creator of edible gardens! Dominique takes a break from visiting the Today Show and consulting aspiring gardeners to chat with us about: * Soul food vs Black food vs Southern food * Is Black food unhealthy? * Is Black food just the descendant of the scraps enslavers left for Blacks? Sources: High on the Hog [https://www.blackbirdcookbooks.com/products/high-on-the-hog-a-culinary-journey-from-africa-to-america?srsltid=AfmBOoqXd_RevS7OWF6yv0FNGUAx5201Cgk7pLe_JvXFTNftm2-8GzkA]by Jessica B. Harris Eating While Black [https://bookshop.org/p/books/eating-while-black-food-shaming-and-race-in-america-psyche-a-williams-forson/7ca71c019e93b02e?ean=9781469668451&next=t&next=t] by Psyche A. Williams-Forson The Gift of Southern Cooking [https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-gift-of-southern-cooking-recipes-and-revelations-from-two-great-american-cooks-a-cookbook-edna-lewis/7487b6a1a51e9857?ean=9780375400353&next=t]by Edna Lewis and Scott Peacock Meals, Music and Muses: Recipes from My African-American Kitchen [https://www.amazon.com/Meals-Music-Muses-Recipes-American/dp/1250098092] by Alexander Smalls and Veronica Chambers Recommendations: Cook Out: Recipes and Tips for the Great Outdoors [https://bookshop.org/p/books/cook-out-recipes-and-tips-for-the-great-outdoors-an-outdoor-cookbook-rashad-frazier/67d20928a1328b60?ean=9780593835999&next=t] by Rashad Frazier

All Ears Episode 3: Free Grits and Eggs for All Kids (thanks to the Black Panther Party)

This is an All Ears episode about the Free Breakfast Program for School Children with co-host, 7 year old Naz. The Black Panther Party is known for a lot of things, but how much do we know about the Free Breakfast Program that inspired a nation to feed its poorest citizens breakfast? Hear the UnderTold history of this program and it's lasting impact. Kid-Friendly Sources here: 1. Kids Meet Former Black Panthers (video) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRuDnigDKnI] 2. Five Things to Know About the Black Panthers (video) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9PwhmyhYLA&list=PLRhSJ-baaS2_wLu2qdTZ68ACwCvqTXvJt] For Parents (also check out the Adult Episode preceding this one!) 1. Power Hungry by Suzanne Cope (book) [https://bookshop.org/p/books/power-hungry-women-of-the-black-panther-party-and-freedom-summer-and-their-fight-to-feed-a-movement-suzanne-cope/7bf247ee070e3da2?ean=9781641604529&next=t] 2 . Service to the People (free online book) [https://caringlabor.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/hilliard-ed-the-black-panther-party-service-to-the-people-programs.pdf]

Episode 3: The Black Panther Party's Free Breakfast Program with John Grant, IV

Did you know that the Black Panther Party's Free Breakfast Program provided grits and eggs for kids in the 70's that inspired our government to provide over 2 BILLION breakfasts for students today? Sources: Videos 1.  No Kid Hungry Discussion on Free Breakfast Movement [https://www.nokidhungry.org/blog/black-history-month-celebrating-origins-free-breakfast-and-food-justice-movement] 2. 1969 Special Project: Black Panthers Feed the Children [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY6sqgGwceo] Books 1.  Power Hungry Women of the Black Panther Partyand Freedom Summer and their Fight to Feed a Movement by Suzanne Cope 2.  To Die for the People by Huey Newton 3.  The Black Panther Party: Service to the People [https://caringlabor.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/hilliard-ed-the-black-panther-party-service-to-the-people-programs.pdf] edited by David Hilliard by the Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation Articles 1.      Breakfast: a Good Habit, not a repetitive custom [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.1177/147323000803600401]. In the Journal of International Medical Research. In 2008. 2.  Breakfast is most important meal [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2824987.stm] (BBC) 3.  Sorry, There’s Nothing Magical About Breakfast [https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/24/upshot/sorry-theres-nothing-magical-about-breakfast.html] y Aaron E. Carroll 4.  Black Past: Black Panther Party’s Free Breakfast Program (1969-1980) [https://blackpast.org/african-american-history/black-panther-partys-free-breakfast-program-1969-1980/#:~:text=The%20Panthers'%20first%20and%20most,school%20hungry%20and%20stayed%20hungry.] 5.  Black History Month: Celebrating the Origins of Free Breakfast and the Food Justice Movement on NoKidHungry.org [https://www.nokidhungry.org/blog/black-history-month-celebrating-origins-free-breakfast-and-food-justice-movement] 6. Fact Sheet on School Breakfast Program [https://www.nokidhungry.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/school-breakfast-program-factsheet.pdf] by No Kid Hungry 7. Nonviolence Project on Free Breakfast for Children: [https://thenonviolenceproject.wisc.edu/2024/02/04/free-breakfast-for-children-nonviolent-legacies-of-the-black-panther-party/] Nonviolent Legacies of the Black Panther Party 8.  The Greenwood Food Blockade [https://www.southernfoodways.org/the-greenwood-food-blockade/] by Southern Foodways Alliance 9. African American Intellectual Historic Society: The Black Panther Party and the Free Breakfast for Children Program [https://www.aaihs.org/the-black-panther-party/] 10.  Solid Ground: Radical History of the Free Breakfast Program [https://www.solid-ground.org/the-radical-history-of-the-free-breakfast-program/] 11.  Wikipedia: School Breakfast Program [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_Breakfast_Program]

All Ears Episode 2: Anna Murray Douglass with Naz

This is an All Ears episode about Anna Murray Douglass with co-host, 7 year old Naz. Frederick Douglass attempted to escape from slavery twice. He failed. And then he met Anna and Anna had a plan. The rest is history. Hear the UnderTold history of Anna Murray Douglass, the woman who dedicated her life to antislavery and civil rights for Black Americans. Sources: Anna Murray Douglass, My Mother As I Recall Her by Rosetta Douglass Sprague

Episode 2: Anna Murray Douglass, A Love Story with Antar Tichavakunda

In this episode, we bring light to Anna Murray Douglass, the first wife of Frederick Douglass. Frederick Douglass tried to escape slavery. He failed twice. Then he met Anna, and he never failed again. Here the UnderTold love story of Anna & Frederick. Sources: 1.    Anna Murray Douglass – My Mother As I Recall Her [https://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc5400/sc5496/051200/051245/images/2713462.pdf] by Rosetta Douglass Sprague 2.  My Bondage and Freedom by Frederick Douglass 3.  Free City of Baltimore [https://oxfordaasc.com/page/2901#:~:text=When%20Frederick%20Douglass%20arrived%20in,long%20struggle%20of%20black%20America.] 4.  Life and Time of Frederick Douglass, byFrederick Douglass; Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass 5. North Star Front Page [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/NorthStarfrontpage.jpg] 6. Putting Out System [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putting-out_system#:~:text=The%20putting%2Dout%20system%2C%20also,with%20agricultural%20and%20domestic%20chores]. 7.  Demographics of Free Blacks [https://jubiloemancipationcentury.wordpress.com/2015/07/11/the-demographics-and-geography-of-free-blacks-north-south-east-west/]