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August 6, 2024 - Rooted, the Pentathlon, and J. Courtney Sullivan
Germaine Jenkins has made it her mission to do something about the food deserts in her native South Carolina. In 2014, she co-founded Fresh Future Farm on a vacant city lot with $600 from a family tax refund. What thrives today is a food Oasis.. Her ongoing fight for food justice is the focus of the documentary film “Rooted.” She joins us ahead of a screening event at the Martha’s Vineyard African American FIlm Festival.
Then, Culture Show contributor James Bennett II gives us an explainer on one of the more obscure and complicated Olympic sports, the Pentathlon.
Finally, best-selling author…
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