Congratulations to the fierce, revolutionary, hard-working, visionary, passionate, dedicated and loving Dara Cooper, National Organizer and Co-Founder of the National Black Food and Justice Alliance, for being awarded the prestigious James Beard Foundation Leadership Award for her conscious and inspired leadership, "[building] a coalition of Black-led organizations and institutions for Black food sovereignty."
http://www.blackfoodjustice.org
"The National Black Food and Justice Alliance is a coalition of Black-led organizations, developing Black leadership, supporting Black communities, organizing Black self-determination, and building institutions for Black food sovereignty & liberation. The Alliance seeks to achieve this by engaging in broad based coalition organizing for black food and land, increasing visibility of Black led narratives and work, advancing Black led visions for just and sustainable communities, and building capacity for self-determination within our local, national, and international food systems and land rights work. We focus on our work on Black food sovereignty, land and self-determining food economies through the lens of healing, organizing and resistance against anti-Blackness." http://www.blackfoodjustice.org/about
Thanks to Dara Cooper and the National Black Food and Justice Alliance, we have a truly powerful, conscious and grassroots Black institution dedicated to addressing and lifting-up the food and farm needs of Black communities, children, mothers and fathers everywhere. Thank you Dara Cooper and the National Black Food and Justice Alliance for your vision, consciousness, and work for African American communities food and health and beyond! Congratulations to the James Beard Foundation for recognizing and supporting the genius, power and leadership of Dara Cooper, the National Black Food and Justice Alliance, and Black Self Determination and Black Food Sovereignty.
http://www.foodandwine.com/…/james-beard-foundation-leaders…
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