The Black-led Nonprofit Advancing Food Justice in Tennessee

The Black-led Nonprofit Advancing Food Justice in Tennessee

A recent documentary, Roots of Resilience: East Knoxville’s Black Food Renaissance from filmmaker Ronald Levy, tells the story of the organization Rooted East. The Black-led food justice nonprofit is fighting deeply rooted food apartheid and advancing food justice in East Knoxville, Tennessee. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Access Research Atlas, all eight of East Knoxville’s census tracts are designated low income, low f…