We kick off our first week of winter pledge drive with today’s episode about food justice. Our guest is Monica M. White, professor of community and environmental sociology and author of Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement. She, Patty, and fundraising volunteer Kathy Hoveland have a lively conversation about the history of Black farming, food justice, and the connections between liberation and food production.

Monica M. White is an assistant professor of environmental justice at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is the author of Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement (University of North Carolina Press, 2019).

Professor Monica M. White is giving a public lecture on Wednesday, March 6 at 7:00 PM in the DeLuca Forum at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery (330 N. Orchard St., Madison, WI). More details available here.

Detroit Black Community Food Security Network: https://www.dbcfsn.org/

Detroit People’s Food Co-op: https://www.grocer.coop/detroit-peoples-food-co-op

Federation of Southern Cooperatives: http://www.federationsoutherncoop.com/history.htm