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Caption: Karen Washington and Bryant Terry, Credit: Alex Akamine
The influences of Africans and Black Americans on food and agriculture is rooted in ancestral African knowledge and traditions of shared labor, wor...

  • Added: Feb 05, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
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While peanut butter is one of my favorite foods, I can’t say that I have given much thought to the peanut as a crop, or paid any attention to its r...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
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“Our bodies aren’t the problem,” rethinking the stories we tell about weight and health with dietician Jessica Wilson.

  • Added: Sep 20, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
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Marissa Gencarelli is the co-founder of Yoli Tortilleria in Kansas City where they make tortillas using traditional Mexican methods. Damarr Brown i...

  • Added: Sep 14, 2023
  • Length: 54:04
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A conversation with Korie Griggs of the Color of Coffee Collective.

  • Added: Aug 16, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
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Everybody eats, including animals at the zoo. Producer Toby Foster talks with the curator of nutrition at the Cincinnati Zoo.

  • Added: Apr 27, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
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A conversation with dietician Jessica Wilson about what we get wrong when we focus on weight.

  • Added: Apr 13, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
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While peanut butter is one of my favorite foods, I can’t say that I have given much thought to the peanut as a crop, or paid any attention to its r...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
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Did you know that Black farmers faced grave injustices, racist policies and land loss while attempting to feed their families and communities? Join...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Feb 09, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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A conversation with Korie Griggs of the Color of Coffee Collective.

  • Added: Feb 09, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
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A conversation about the The Smell of Money–a documentary film about environmental justice in rural communities.

  • Added: Oct 27, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
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While peanut butter is one of my favorite foods, I can’t say that I have given much thought to the peanut as a crop, or paid any attention to its r...

  • Added: Sep 22, 2022
  • Length: 54:01
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From walking a horse 6 miles on a rail trail, to transporting 24 sheep in the back of a Chrysler minivan, these young farmers will find a way to ge...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
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Priscilla McCutcheon talks about her research on Fannie Lou Hamer’s Freedom Farm, and we learn how to eat well when the power is out.

  • Added: Feb 18, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
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The term food desert implies that it’s naturally occurring--but is it?

  • Added: Dec 17, 2020
  • Length: 53:58
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A new book by Marcia Chatelain complicates the relationship between McDonald’s and the Black community.

  • Added: Dec 03, 2020
  • Length: 53:58
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Did you know that “urban agriculture” is not new? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and registered dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her interview with ...

Bought by KVMR and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Sep 17, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Did you know that that the long-chain fatty acid, DHA, can significantly reduce preterm birth, and that African American women are more prone to pr...

Bought by KVMR and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Aug 06, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Did you know that African Americans were purposely left out of recorded history, resulting in lost wisdom and dignity? Join Food Sleuth Radio host,...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jul 30, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Minneapolis Police Murder of George Floyd Triggers Nationwide Week of Mass...

Bought by WKPW


  • Added: Jun 03, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Photo used courtesy of Leah Penniman
Soul Fire Farm is a working farm in upstate New York committed to ending racism and injustice in the food system, co-founded by Leah Penniman.

Bought by KZYX and KWMR


  • Added: Jun 05, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Tracye McQuirter, author of By Any Greens Necessary, has partnered with Farm Sanctuary to create and write the first African American Vegan Starter...

Bought by 'The Sea'


  • Added: Oct 24, 2016
  • Length: 28:32
  • Purchases: 1
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This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: House Passes Bill That Would Ban State Laws Mandating Labeling of GMO Food...

Bought by WRIR and KSFR


  • Added: Aug 08, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Denzel Mitchell of Five Seeds Farm and Apiary
Sound Bites on Delmarva producer Mark Gunnery visits Baltimore's newest farmer's market, Union Graze, and catches up with a farmer, a farm intern, ...

Bought by WCSU-FM and WESM 91.3 FM


  • Added: Jun 20, 2013
  • Length: 09:05
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Ladonna Redmond
LaDonna Redmond and Wil Bullock live in communities where 12-year-olds suffer heart attacks, and where it's easier to buy a semi-automatic weapon t...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2010
  • Length: 28:28