Historian Michael Twitty uses Southern food to create awareness and education about slavery.
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A NATION BUILT ON THE BACK OF SLAVERY AND RACISM (Yes Magazine)
NPR: “When Ancestry Search Led To Escaped Slave: ‘All I Could Do Was Weep'”
“When she was in fifth grade, Regina Mason received a school assignment that would change her life: to connect with her country of origin. That night, she went home and asked her mother where they were from.
“She told me about her grandfather who was a former slave,” Mason tells Fresh Air’s Terry Gross. “And that blew me away, because I’m thinking, ‘Slavery was like biblical times. It wasn’t just a few generations removed.’ ”