Black Food Politics, History and Transformation: Reimagining Food Systems from Below

Roundtable Conversation with Dominique Hazzard and Zoe Holloman, moderated by Tracey Deutsch

Cost: Free

The roundtable session centers the energy, deep history, and significance of Black activism around food and farming. We bring together Zoe Hollomon and her work with Rootsprings, a Black & LGBT-owned Co-operative farm in Annandale, MN and the Midwest Farmers of Color Collective, especially its advocacy work in policy making and organizing work to fight oppression, and Dominique Hazzard, a new faculty member in the Department of African American & African Studies at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, whose work focuses on the local struggle for Black food sovereignty in Washington, D.C., then and now. The goal of this session is to build connections between the UMN Twin Cities campus and concrete grassroots work being done by Black organizers and visionaries. Together, we are interested in learning how to reimagine food politics from below. This roundtable will be moderated by Tracey Deutsch, a faculty member in the Department of History at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities.

This event is part of Farm Aid 40’s “Week of Farm Aid” programming and pre-festival events aimed at bringing together farmers and communities to build over our shared connection to food, land, culture, climate and story. Learn more about Farm Aid 40 Events here.