Peace & Riot Picks
📚 Reading: Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
The classic speculative-fiction novel by pioneering author Octavia Butler that explores a post-apocalyptic Earth heavily affected by climate change and social inequality.
🍽 Cooking: Sophia Roe
Sophia Roe (@sophia_roe) is an award winning, trauma-informed cook who also specializes in decolonized recipes.
🍽 Cooking: Black Forager
Alexis Nikole (@BlackForager) is a self proclaimed environmental science enthusiast, vegan food concocter, and foraging teacher.
🎬 Watching: The Barber of Little Rock
This documentary follows Barber Arlo Washington's crusade to close the racial wealth gap with The People Trust, a nonprofit community bank.
🎧 Playing: “Whitey on the Moon” by Gil Scott-Heron
This classic civil rights poem by musician, jazz poet, author, and thought leader Gil Scott-Heron reminds us of our reporting from Brownsville, Texas.