Monthly Book Club
Each month we will highlight a new book that will give us insight into how to understand food deserts and combat them. Join us to get a better perspective of what’s going on in the world around us and find out how you can get involved to be the change you want to see.
March – Food and Poverty by Leslie Hossfield, E. Brooke Kelly, Julia F. Waity
Food insecurity rates, which skyrocketed with the Great Recession, have yet to fall to pre-recession levels. Food pantries are stretched thin, and states are imposing new restrictions on programs like SNAP that are preventing people from getting crucial government assistance. At the same time, we see an increase in obesity that results from lack of access to healthy foods. The poor face a daily choice between paying bills and paying for food.
Our Book Club
To understand a problem you must get to the source. Our book club helps you to get better insight as to what’s really going on in food desert communities and how we can do something about them.
Feb.
Franchise
By Marcia Chatelain
A nuanced account of the complicated role the fast-food industry plays in African-American communities, a portrait of race and capitalism that masterfully illustrates how the fight for civil rights and health disparities have been intertwined with the fate of Black communities.
