Food Security and Human Rights Lecture with Malik Yakini
Monday, April 3, 2017
4-6pm
Konover Auditorium, Dodd Research Center
Malik Kenyatta Yakini is a founder and the Executive Director of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network (DBCFSN). DBCFSN operates a seven-acre urban farm and is spearheading the opening of a co-op grocery store in Detroit’s North End. Yakini views the “good food revolution” as part of the larger movement for freedom, justice and equality. He has an intense interest in contributing to the development of an international food sovereignty movement that embraces Black communities in the Americas, the Caribbean and Africa.
Malik Yakini will share the work of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network as a model of community self-determination and resistance in a city plagued by intentional disinvestment, compromised democracy and the concentration of land ownership in the hands of a few. He will also discuss the impact of the system of white supremacy, patriarchy and capitalism on the movement for food justice and sovereignty.
Co-sponsored by: Department of Sociology, Office for Diversity & Inclusion, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, Office of Global Affairs and the Human Rights Institute
For more information, contact: N Amos at 860.486.0647