Detroit Food Security Tote
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content: Made from black cloth, this tote bag features a logo and key words relating to the mission of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network (DBCFSN). A yellow square stands out against the black cloth and a green flower is positioned in the center. The words “ABUNDANCE,” “POWER,” “UNITY,” and “AFFLUENCE” frame the top and sides of the flower with various vegetables placed between the words. At the bottom the acronym, DBCFSN, stands out in bold black lettering with the phrase “Fostering Community Food Security” underneath.
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content: This tote bag speaks to the efforts of a community committed to combating food insecurity in their city of Detroit, Michigan. The organization was formed in 2006 at Black Star Community Bookstore by a group of forty residents concerned about food insecurity within the local African American community. The DBCFSN sprang from an earlier effort by several founding members at the Nsoroma Institute Public School Academy to create a school garden, a school-wide food security curriculum, and a garden collective. The DBCFSN wanted to address the lack of African American representation in Detroit's local urban agriculture movement.
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content: Malik Yakini co-founded and served as the first Executive Director of the DBCFSN. Among the organization's activities is D-Town Farm, an urban farm on seven acres of land in Detroit's Rouge Park. A team of local volunteers and staff grow a wide variety of fruits and vegetables (in 2020 about 30) and offer tours.
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content: This cloth bag represents the message of DBCFSN and their efforts to increase access to healthy, sustainably grown food in Detroit neighborhoods and support community leadership and empowerment in the urban agriculture movement.
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content: Work and Industry: Food Technology
label: Exhibition
content: Food: Transforming the American Table
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2018.0203.02
label: catalog number
content: 2018.0203.02
label: accession number
content: 2018.0203
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bag, cloth
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: black; red; green; yellow (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 26 in x 15 in; 66.04 cm x 38.1 cm