Author Ashley Gripper (right) with fellow farmers Errol Chichester (left) and Tahirah Chichester (center). Photograph By Khaliah D. Pitts The Blacker The Berry By Ashley Gripper For more than 150 years, from the rural South to northern cities, Black people have used farming to build self-determined communities and resist oppressive structures that tear them down.
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Illustration by Sean Rynkewicz A City Divided By Randy Lobasso For many peaceful protesters in Philadelphia, June 2020 started off with a bang. Specifically, the bangs of flash grenades and tear gas canisters exploding below their feet as they attempted to escape from riot gear-clad police officers on Interstate 676. The murder of George Floyd
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Photograph Courtesy of Nic Esposito By Nic Esposito A lot has changed since last month’s issue of Grid was released. Most importantly, the long-overdue national reckoning of how laws are enforced and how they disproportionately affect communities of color is finally taking hold. Also notably, I am no longer a part of the Kenney Administration.
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Photography By Milton Lindsay Rich and Creamy By Alexandra W. Jones Vegan cheesemonger Steve Babaki knows the secret to making plant-based cheese taste like the real thing. Time. “If you just give it the time, it can taste so similar,” he says. The Conscious Cultures Creamery owner describes himself as 99.9% vegan (he occasionally nibbles
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Photography by Drew Dennis By Constance Garcia-Barrio On Saturday, June 6, I donned eleke beads, which represent different angels in the Yoruba religion, a sister tradition to Vodun, and prayed for protection before I left home for the George Floyd protest at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. With my 73 years and two prosthetic hips,
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Photography By KayCee Garringer By Aaron Salsbury Q&A Interview with Nathaniel Ross, local metal-worker who commissioned the murals You’re a West Philadelphia resident and also have a workshop in the neighborhood. Can you tell us a little bit about yourself and why you love the neighborhood? I’m a Delco kid, and I couldn’t wait to
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Photograph courtesy of Unsplash.com By: Maddie Clark Much of the United States is wary and quite uncertain of what it would actually mean to defund the police. But according to Nicholas O’Rourke, organizing director of Philadelphia’s Working Families Party: “It’s less about harming the police and more about investing in our community.” His party, which
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Photography By Rachael Warriner Bulking Up By Nic Esposito When Pennsylvania ordered its citizens to start socially distancing in mid-March, one West Philadelphia resident formed a wholesale buying club as a way to keep friends and neighbors connected in the midst of the chaos. The founder of the Pandemic Pantry, who prefers not to be
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Photograph Courtesy of Unsplash.com Should Businesses Allow Voting on the Company Dime? By: Jaclyn Zeal There’s a growing movement of businesses recognizing their role in empowering their employees to participate on election day. It’s no secret that large swaths of the voting-age population do not turn out to the polls. In 2018, only 51% of
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By Meredith Jones Grid has received a number of inquiries from readers interested in combating systemic racism who are looking for lists of local black-owned businesses they can support in their daily lives. As a jumping-off point, we have started a list of vegan businesses with black or bi-racial ownership that we hope will grow
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