Let's Talk About It With Myeka: Rev. James Bevel's Vision of A Farming Community

The Civil Rights era of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s was a time of expanded thought and reclaiming of power. Today Myeka Bevel joins us to discuss the vision her late husband Rev. James Bevel worked to implement: taking urbanized black people and teaching them to create self sustaining farming communities by growing their own food. This was a revolutionary thought for those who had been conditioned to be dependent upon government welfare, or 9 to 5 jobs that supplied money to buy groceries from the super market. How do we change our thinking about working on trhe land, when for generations we have been taught to scorn and look down on country people as "poor" and "backwards"? Agribusiness is what drives the economy of a nation, because no matter what else you produce, you can't survive without food. As we prepare to grow vegetables and create products from our PANDEMIC Farms, let's talk about farming with Myeka. In our first half our, we'll pay tribute to Chicago's first African American Mayor Harold Washington, a man who's election helped create the momentum of political empowerment that led to African American leadership in the White House.