Spiritual and Cultural Connections in Black Communities
Paula Penn-Nabrit |
TEDxColumbusWomen
• December 2019
#WeFightUrbanFoodApartheid
#WeWereBroughtHeretoCultivate
#HeStartedUsinaGardenforaReason
These hashtags illuminate the mission of The Charles Madison Nabrit Memorial Garden at the Church of Christ of the Apostolic Faith. Launched in 2014 in the rear of the church home of a 110+ year old congregation formed by descendants of formerly enslaved Africans, the USDA Economic Research Service identifies our zip code as a low income, low access urban food desert. But deserts are naturally occurring environments, food insecurity is not.
Paula Penn-Nabrit's talk explores the intersection between the intimate issues of gardening as grief therapy, the political issues of food security, food pantries, and community gardens, and the cultural and spiritual issues of post-traumatic slave syndrome, and the Black church.