WEATHER UPDATE: The outdoor showing of "Hidden Figures" has been postponed due to weather, but students can still pick up produce from the Food for Thought Pantry from 12-5 p.m. in University Center A.
During the ASLC’s showing of HIDDEN FIGURES, the Food For Thought Pantry and the MLK Celebration Week Committee will host a mobile food distribution. FSU students can receive free produce and dry staples such as rice and beans.
Food justice emerges as a reoccurring theme of the Civil Rights movement’s efforts. As we celebrate 2021 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Week: The Black Women In Our Lives, we reflect on advocates who incorporated nutrition into their demands and became stewards of their neighbor’s basic needs security. From the legacy of sit-in protests over public accommodation access at lunch counters, to Dr. King’s Poor Peoples Campaign, to the Black Panther Party’s Free Breakfast Program, to Georgia Gilmore of Montgomery, Alabama using her baking and cooking circle Club from Nowhere to feed and fund the Freedom Riders, to the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee collaborating with Black sharecroppers to ensure access to federal food programs in Mississippi, to Fannie Lou Hamer’s Freedom Farms Cooperative, and to Shirley Chisholm’s role in passing the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act, which created both Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Women, Infants, and Children Program (WIC), advocacy for human rights and dignity for all Americans regardless of skin color or ethnic background has integrated food access. In honor of the 2021 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Week FSU students are encouraged to visit the Food for Thought Pantry’s mobile distribution on Langford Green and take home free produce and dry Pantry staples such as rice and beans.
Friday, January 22, 2021 at 12:00pm to 5:00pm
University Center - Building A (UCA), A4148
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