Scott Alves Barton
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PhD-Food Scholar-Chef/Culinary Consultant, Afro-Brazilian sacred/secular culinary cultures
Land ownership has been a symbol of wealth for years, particularly for Black Americans. One of the biggest metrics of success meant having land to build a home, toiling soil to nourish family and livestock, and, in turn, making a living.
Systemic barriers have tainted that reality. Black farmers comprise just 1.4% of the U.S. farming population, and a few can say that their land has been in their family for generations. Brittany Bell Surratt is now one of those few.
https://sweetjuly.com/editorial/to-save-her-familys-land-this-communications-professional-became-a-farmer/
#IFONLY: A billboard in Dalton and in other parts of Georgia's 14th Congressional District paid for by an activist group, #RepublicanAccountabilityProject urging @RepMTG to resign - can be seen at the corner of Walnut Avenue and Thornton Place in Dalton, Georgia.
an we just stop with, "A city on edge" for 7 days--media industry. that's a facile way to foment more unrest...as was releasing the video on a Friday evening Popo #TyreNichols
4/ Proving the officer wrong, Elizabeth not only got married, but gave birth to two children while pursuing her law degree. She attributed this tenacity to the confidence her father instilled in her during childhood and later said “’To be a woman lawyer you have to have the hide of a rhinoceros.’
it is tough to discern Elizabeth’s activities at this time. This is perhaps due to scant documentation for African Americans, particularly women, during this period. Likely, she was working towards her law degree at Boston University, despite being told by an admissions officer “there was not need to come and advised she get married.” 3/
"Marriage is complicated enough. Add in opposing political views, routinely confronting systemic racism and sexism, and coping with the hardships of the Great Depression and World War II, and it’s even more challenging..." https://blog.history.in.gov/how-south-bend-attorneys-elizabeth-and-j-chester-allen-lifted-the-heel-of-oppression/
How South Bend Attorneys Elizabeth and J. Chester Allen Lifted the “Heel of Oppression”
*This is Part One in a series about the Allens. Marriage is complicated enough. Add in opposing political views, routinely confronting systemic racism and sexism, and coping with the hardships of t…
J. Chester served as mgmt comm chair of Hering House-he described: “‘the clearing house of most of the social activities of the colored people as well as the point of contact btw white & colored groups of South Bend. . . . Its activities in 3 fields of spiritual, mental & physical training make it indeed a character bldg institution.'” Thru the org, J. Chester helped provide 4,678 meals to unemployed African Americans, along w clothes, lodging & medical aid to others in the 1931 Black community.
I cannot even begin to imagine what this is like...and thankfully although we had experienced -26F->-35F with the windchill, and 40-50 mph winds, the accumulation did not meet the forecasts in Chicago, and we came out OK. Hoping for the best for folks in #Buffalo
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