Low-income, Black and Brown neighborhoods across New York City have long had challenges to accessing quality food.  BLS Professor Regina Bernard-Carreno and her students traveled up and down New York state to find  quality food and they discovered how racial inequality creates unequal access to healthy food.

We rely on history to teach us. Although food has always been a point of activism in Black and Brown neighborhoods, in 1971, it was the Black Panther Party (BPP) that created the Free Breakfast Program across the country.

Inspired by the work and the impact of Small Farms’  tenacity to bring quality food to Black and Brown children, Professor Bernard-Carreno sought to bring quality food to the neighborhoods that are still lacking.