by familyvoices | Jan 18, 2021 | FamU - BC - Black Culinary History
Weapon of Control Food was used as a weapon to control enslaved blacks. Abolitionist, social reformer, orator, writer, and statesman Frederick Douglass wrote in My Bondage and My Freedom, “I have often been so pinched with hunger, that I have fought with the...
by familyvoices | Jan 17, 2021 | FamU - BC - Black Culinary History
Singing Soul Food Southern cuisine and music were both born out of poverty and hardship and are highlighted in the Singing Soul Food playlist from the Southern Foodways Alliance, in collaboration with the Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, a nonprofit record label of...
by familyvoices | Jan 16, 2021 | FamU - BC - Black Culinary History
Recipes Dr. Jessica B. Harris first tasted Yassa in Senegal in 1972 on her first trip to the African continent “and it was love at first bite”. Michael Twitty traced black-eyed peas back to the Middle Passage and its roots in Africa, recognizing it as a seed of Black...
by familyvoices | Jan 14, 2021 | Family Voices, Washington Update
The major issues covered in this Update are: Enactment of the COVID-relief and FY 2021 appropriations bill Medicaid news, including: Extension of the Public Health Emergency (PHE) and consequent extension of the enhanced federal match, maintenance-of-effort...
by familyvoices | Dec 15, 2020 | Family Voices, NCFPP
Family Voices National is honored to be one of the winners of HRSA’s Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) Care Coordination for Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN) Challenge. Led by Cara Coleman, Family Voices National was part of a...