The University of Delaware's Department of Africana Studies hosted an engaging virtual conversation on November 15, 2023, about urgent issues in Black study and Black life. Reverend Heber Brown, director of Baltimore’s Black Church Food Security Network, and Mr. Shaun Thomas, owner of Go Vegan Philly, discussed how access to food and foodways in Black communities is shaped by racial inequality and injustice – but also grassroots organizing toward Black health, wellness, and vitality.​