Carolina Gold - The story of the hidden wealth of early America
Thanks to the work of Glenn Roberts, proprietor of Anson Mills and a president of the Carolina Gold Foundation, and many others with we...
Tulsa Juneteenth Festival - Tulsa - June 13-15, 2024
Juneteenth (short for “June Nineteenth”) marks the day when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas in 1865 to take control of the...
Odunde Festival - Philadelphia - June 9, 2024
The Odunde Festival, held annually in Philadelphia, was created in 1975 by Lois Fernandez. The festival attracts up to 500,000 people...
Black-Eyed Peas - At New Years and anytime
My earliest recollection black-eyed peas was our family mantra that you can't start the New Year without black-eyed peas, stewed tomatoes...
Goose Creek Tomato - A Family Heirloom
From Seed to Skillet begins with co-author Jimmy Williams telling us how gardening can be a generation to generation production, how his...
Aunt Lou's Underground Railroad Tomato
I’m very fond of the idea that I can grow something in my garden that was passed down from an African traveling to freedom through the...
Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas
Black Rice tells the story of the true provenance of rice in the Americas. It establishes, through agricultural and historical evidence,...
High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America
Acclaimed editor and culinary historian, Dr. Jessica B. Harris has spent much of her life researching the food and foodways of the...
The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African America Culinary History in the Old South
The Cooking Gene is a literary journey through African-American culinary history. From the tobacco and rice farms of colonial times to...
In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Botanical legacy in the Atlantic World
In the Shadow of Slavery is masterful scholarship that debunks the simple-minded notion that enslaved Africans came to America without...
We are Each Other’s Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers, Land and Legacy
In We are Each Other’s Harvest, Natalie Baszile explores and celebrates Black farming in America. She has assembled a treasure trove of...
Handbook of the Negro Garden Club of Virginia (1944)
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924002827545&seq=3
Gaining Ground: The Fight for Black Land, Documentary
https://gaininggroundthefilm.com/
Homegrown, Netflix
https://www.hbomax.com/series/urn:hbo:series:GYyTRuAWgbDKqUgEAAACu
High on the Hog: How African Americans Cuisine Transformed America, Netflix
Stephen Satterfield, Host In the first episode of the second season of the High on the Hog Netflix television series, educator and...
