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"Farming While Black: Uprooting Racism, Seeding Sovereignty" by Amani Olugbala

"Farming While Black: Uprooting Racism, Seeding Sovereignty" by Amani Olugbala

Amani Olugbala, a community educator at Soul Fire Farm, will deliver a lecture titled, "Farming While Black: Uprooting Racism, Seeding Sovereignty" on April 17 at 7 p.m. in Gund Gallery. They will also participate in a panel discussion, "Building Sustainable Communities Around Agriculture," on April 18 at 11:10 a.m. in Peirce Lounge.

 

About the Lecture

Some of our most cherished sustainable farming practices — from organic agriculture to the farm cooperative and the CSA — have roots in African wisdom. Yet, discrimination and violence against African-American farmers has led to our decline from 14 percent of all growers in 1920 to less than 2 percent today, with a corresponding loss of over 14 million acres of land. Further, Black communities suffer disproportionately from illnesses related to lack of access to fresh food and healthy natural ecosystems. Soul Fire Farm is committed to ending racism and injustice in our food system. Through programs such as the Black-Latinx Farmers Immersion, a sliding-scale farmshare CSA and Youth Food Justice leadership training, Soul Fire Farm is part of a global network of farmers working to increase farmland stewardship by people of color, restore Afro-indigenous farming practices and end food apartheid. And now, with the new book "Farming While Black," Soul Fire Farm extends that work by offering the first comprehensive manual for African-heritage people ready to reclaim our rightful place of dignified agency in the food system. Join us to learn how you too can be part of the movement for food sovereignty and help build a food system based on justice, dignity and abundance for all members of our community.

About Amani Olugbala

Amani Olugbala, community educator at Soul Fire Farm, is a storyteller and food justice advocate with over 15 years of experience in youth education and community outreach. Amani combines artistic expression, project-based learning and outdoor education tools to facilitate social justice based workshops and discussions with individuals, groups and organizations. Amani seeks to push communities to challenge presumed differences and work together in uncovering interlocked paths towards self determination and community liberation. Amani’s early work with the Natural Leaders, Brother Yusuf and the Youth Ed Venture Network, underscored the necessity of reintroduction to land as a source of healing and power for those of us who have been historically and systematically disconnected. Amani awoke a personal connection to seed while directing YO!, a youth-centered urban garden program in Albany, New York. At Soul Fire Farm’s Black and Latinx Farmer Immersion, Amani further cultivated the tools to sustain this connection and share it with others. Soul Fire Farm raises life-giving food to folks surviving food apartheid, trains farmer activists, advocates for systemic change and offers models for revolutionary thrival through love, ancestral wisdom and Earth reverence. Raptivist, spoken word artist and abolitionist, Amani O+ is driven to uplift love, art and service as necessary expressions of rebellion against a sense of disconnection and hopelessness that threatens our collective peace and wellness.

 

Learn More
www.farmingwhileblack.org
www.soulfirefarm.org
@soulfirefarm @farmingwhileblack

 

Both events are sponsored by the Rural Cause at Kenyon, the Office of Green Initiatives and the Black Student Union.

Wednesday, April 17 at 7:00pm

Community Foundation Theater in the Gund Gallery
101 1/2 College Drive, Gambier, Ohio 43022

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Lectures, Presentations, Speakers, Diversity Related, Sustainability

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