food justice
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Operation Breadbasket, the seed of PUSH
I have dedicated a number of posts here at Darkjive to the PUSH Expo, a 1970s exercise in Black Economic Empowerment (or Black Power as it was then known). The PUSH Expo phenomenon was borne from the seed of Operation Breadbasket (a department of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference), but the roots…
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Graffiti and Grub: Slaying Food Deserts, One Pear at a Time
Englewood and Washington Park get a Sustainable, Organic Grocery Store to call their own Tomorrow, August 28th, marks the highly anticipated grand opening of Graffiti and Grub, a market ten years in the making. Serving the underserved South Side communities of Englewood and Washington Park, Graffiti and Grub began simply: a husband and wife embarked…
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Re-Thinking the Soup Kitchen
Re-thinking Soup , at Jane Addams Hull House Museum, serves up bowls of soup and, hopefully, change. According to Kelly Saulsberry, Hull House Museum Project Coordinator, Re-thinking Soup serves free lunch on Tuesdays — healthy soup (made in their on-site kitchen) and organic bread — inside the historic Hull House Residents’ Dining Hall on UIC’s…
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