Please join Feed the Pack food pantry as we welcome Lynn Johnson, a professor and scholar of Africana studies and food studies at Dickinson College, for an evening of learning and discussion. Johnson is currently completing a manuscript that examines the relationship between food and psychological disease and wellness as portrayed in African American fiction.

Johnson will present a lecture about the ways African Americans' wedding of food, cooking and commensality along with their activist praxes during the 1960s civil rights movement aligned with the dimensions of a complete life Martin Luther King Jr. advocated. She will explore the lives of participants in lunch counter sit-ins as well as Black restaurant owners who not only fed Black activists but also offered safe spaces for protest strategizing. Moreover, Johnson will link these historical case studies with those drawn from contemporary food justice movements. Her lecture will last 45 minutes, and she will participate in a 15-minute Q&A. 

We look forward to seeing you there to learn more about the history of food in the civil rights movement.