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A local mural by Todd Hebenstriet (Instagram: @paths01) of civil rights activist Malcolm X.

Inside this Lobo WARD: UNM tuba professor builds legacy through kindness (pg. 2) KLEINHANS: The Fro celebrates ‘Black joy and happiness’ for Black History Month (pg. 3)

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HAWORTH: Looking back at ‘Killer of Sheep,’ a small budget masterpiece (pg. 4) PUKITE: New female pastor at Grant Chapel AME adapts to pandemic (pg. 5) GUTIERREZ: Divine Nine orgs continue tradition of Black excellence (pg. 6) GLEASON: Local Black-owned business wants microgreens on every plate (pg. 7)

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UNM tuba professor builds legacy through kindness

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Richard White is a man of many accomplishments with a life story full of determination and dedication. Even after becoming the first Black person in the world to achieve a doctorate of music in tuba performance, White said his greatest accomplishment was coming to the University of New Mexico, where he has the ability to make a difference in others’ lives.

The journey he took to get where he is today was no smooth path. As a boy, White found himself unhoused on the streets of Baltimore, fending for himself.

White had to imagine luxuries like a warm blanket and full stomach just to get through the night until he was eventually taken in by a local family. This may have saved his life, but the tuba is what shaped his legacy.

“We have to acknowledge that excellence is void of color,” White said. “Wherever there’s an injustice or discrepancy, I always

when you push past that point of exhaustion to expand your horizons where you learn and improve in anything you do. That’s what his mentors did for him and what he wants to do for the students he works with now.

Eric Lau, the chair of the music department at UNM who used to work in the office right next to White, said that White is incredibly engaged with his students.

“He is just such a dynamic and creative person — he’s always bringing new ideas to the department about better ways we can meet the needs of our students,” Lau said. “He has a unlimited amount of energy for thinking about ways that we can grow and improve as a department.”

Lau said many students come to UNM specifically to work with White as their tuba or euphonium instructor. One of those students is Tanner Stegnik, who was formally rejected from the graduate schools he applied to in 2018. When a UNM music alumni recommended he check out the work White was doing, Stegnik said he was instantly sold. Despite Stegnik missing the

application deadline, White still gave him an opportunity to study with him.

Stegnik is now a second year graduate student in the music department and the studio assistant for White. He said White is overwhelmingly humble about the extent of his accomplishments and the documentary only covers about a quarter of his life story.

“The realm of classical music is not limited by skin color or circumstances of birth,” Stegnik said. “I think that’s a very important message for today and for this time that we live in, so I am very grateful to be able to study with a man like him and to see what that talent and humility can look like as a person.”

Since his arrival in New Mexico, White has done everything he can to improve the quality of UNM students’ experience. Associate director of UNM bands Chad Simons said White is outstanding at recruiting students to the Spirit Marching Band, ensuring that the group has about 12-15 tuba players at all times.

Stegnik said White is the first

full-time tuba faculty member in the history of UNM and is always enthusiastic with his students, leaving them with a refreshing sense of encouragement and motivation.

White said his biggest goal is to become a monumental figure in the world and leave a legacy behind that will pay it forward for generations to come. If White could change anything about the world, he would want to bless everyone with the ability to be kind.

White has a book set to release in October entitled “I'm Possible: A Story of Survival, a Tuba and the Small Miracle of a Big Dream” that will delve further into his life story. He hopes the book will sell enough copies for him to be able to open a new food and music venue called the R.A.W. Tuba Ranch by the end of 2021.

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White’s story became the inspiration for a 2019 documentary centered on his journey from homelessness to receiving a doctorate of music in tuba performance from Indiana University. The film has been screened at thousands of schools and communities across the nation, and White says he takes every chance he can to speak at schools for free in hopes of giving students the encouragement they need to succeed.

“Whether you have a good day or a bad day, the best part of every day is that you’re not done yet,” White said. “I think it’s important to acknowledge that for any of us to be successful, it takes a village, and there’s no denying that no person on this earth is successful by themselves.”

White said he can’t attribute his success to just one person or event — he had help from grade school teachers, professors, colleagues and friends that all contributed to his story.

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The Fro celebrates ‘Black joy and happiness’ for Black History Month

By Shelby Kleinhans @BirdsNotReal99

This year, the University of New Mexico’s African American Student Services (AASS or “the Fro”) launched Black History Month on Jan. 1 with the raising of the Pan-African flag at Scholes Hall, a symbol of “Black liberation” according to AASS. The event, as well as the raising of the “Black History Month” banner by UNM Health Sciences Center, were streamed virtually on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube.

Other virtual events that were either streamed virtually or crafted on social media since then included: “Popular Hair Moments in Black Music History with Na-

telege Whaley” on Feb. 2, “CROWN Act Town Hall” on Feb. 4 and “National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day” on Feb. 7.

The pandemic created the necessity for wholly virtual events, but the team at the Fro readily accepted the challenge.

“It was very difficult and easy at the same time for our office because we’re a very creative group … we like to go above and beyond so even if it meant shifting our hours from the traditional 8-5 to doing 10-6 or even after six to accommodate students — we did that,” Dannelle Kirven, a student success specialist at the Fro, said Future programming for February covers a wide variety of topics that students can engage with. Up-

coming events include: “Verzuz Afro Staff Edition: Patricia vs. J” on Feb. 12, “RAW Tuba Talk ft. Dr. Richard White” on Feb. 18 and “The Bigger Picture: Hip Hop and the BLM Movement ft. Dr. Lakeyta BonnetteBailey” on Feb. 25.

“There’s a purpose to all our programming for this month, and it allows you to critically think about different things and different areas that you didn’t really think about before and put two and two together,” Patricia Lott, a senior student success specialist, said.

A societal shift, resulting from an increased awareness of the Black Lives Matter movement and protests for George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Elijah McClain and countless others whose lives

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were lost to police violence, has changed the tone of Black History Month this year.

“I think we really pushed this Black History Month to center on Black joy and happiness instead of all of the oppression that our community has had to overcome and face through the past several hundred years,” Kirven said, in response to the increased spotlight on the Black community at UNM. “J” Gourdin, another senior student success specialist, echoed Kirven’s sentiments.

“I think that it’s beautiful to see so many people coming to race and coming into a critique of themselves and how they treat other people … It’s also exhausting for the rest of us,” Gourdin said.

Gourdin said they don’t want people to stop “doing the work,” but they want people to understand the ways that the Fro has already been working to solve the “expressions of oppression” such as housing and food insecurity.

Lott reflected on a recent Albuquerque training centered around unpacking racism and said individuals need “to look back at their own institutions to see what ways they can assist in undoing things like the biases and racism within their organization.”

Brandi Stone, the director of AASS, wants students to engage with AASS long after Black History Month.

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When asked which event they were looking forward to the most this month, there was a general consensus that all of the events are worthy of students’ time. However, the “Verzuz” between Gourdin and Lott, who are creating battling playlists, is a match-up that promises to be enthralling.

As a parting thought, the staff at the Fro was asked if there were any Black historical figures they think more people should be aware of.

“I just love shouting out Bayard Rustin, who was an adviser to MLK and also an out queer man,” Gourdin said.

Stone cited James Weldon Johnson, whose poem “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing” eventually “became a hymn that was very spiritual ... and was then later dubbed the Black National Anthem.”

With regard to taking the lessons learned this month and carrying them throughout the year Gourdin said, “Besides Black History Month, every day is a good day for a non-Black person to be nice to a Black person.”

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Looking back at ‘Killer of Sheep,’ a small budget masterpiece

By Dylan Haworth @dylanhaworth2

In 1977, Charles Burnett began production of his debut feature “Killer of Sheep,” a film following the everyday working class struggles of a Black slaughterhouse worker. 13 years later, it was one of the first 50 films deemed a national treasure by the Library of Congress.

With this film and his subsequent realist works, Burnett is regarded as one of the most important filmmakers of the 20th century, going on to inspire artists like Spike Lee, Barry Jenkins and Ryan Coogler.

“Killer of Sheep” puts the impoverished Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts under the microscope.

The film was made 12 years after the Watts Rebellion, a six-day series of protests against police brutality in which 34 protesters were murdered. The aftermath of the state-sponsored violence echoes throughout the many scenes of children scampering through the ruins of old buildings destroyed in the decade prior.

When watching the film, it’s important to first look at the historical context that surrounded it. During the ‘70s, UCLA’s film program saw an influx of Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) artists who sought to document the realities of their communities in solidarity with radical filmmakers from Latin America and Africa. This movement of young writers/directors was called the “L.A. Rebellion” and produced masters like Julie Dash, Haile Gerima and, of course, Burnett.

The L.A. Rebellion sought to deconstruct the white supremacist foundations of Hollywood that came about with its inception.

The first “blockbuster” was D.W. Griffith’s “The Birth of a Nation,” a film glorifying the Ku Klux Klan and praising their actions.

Even with technical advancements, Hollywood continued its racist practices. The first-ever full

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feature sound film, or “talkie,” was “The Jazz Singer,” a film whose protagonist is frequently in blackface.

Even after the popularity of these blatantly racist films began to wane, Hollywood continued to largely censor and ignore Black artists.

The L.A. Rebellion looked outside the typical Hollywood studio systems, creating independently funded films that highlighted class and race issues endemic to the United States. Taking inspiration from artists like Ousmane Sembéne and Fernando Solanas, the “L.A. rebels” told stories of anti-colonialism, anti-capitalism and anti-racism.

“Killer of Sheep,” Burnett’s master’s thesis film at UCLA, was produced with a meager budget of $10,000 and kick-started the movement of BIPOC filmmakers in the Los Angeles area.

The film weaves in and out of the life of Stan, an exhausted and alienated slaughterhouse worker who toils tirelessly at his job. He is

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played expertly by Henry G. Sanders, one of only three characters not played by real-life residents of Watts. He strikes a depressed figure, constantly working to make ends meet for his wife and children, yet still maintains resilience in the face of his mental and physical struggles.

Burnett refuses to romanticize Stan’s work, portraying life inside the slaughterhouse as haunting and draining. In one particularly gruesome scene, we watch as sheep are hung up on hooks and slowly bleed out onto the factory floor. Stan corrales the other sheep to their death with a numb, blank expression across his face.

This same expression is maintained throughout most of the film, and the exhaustion behind it affects every interaction he has.

Stan complains to his friends that he can’t sleep, strangers tell him he looks sad and even when his wife attempts to seduce him, he simply walks away without a word. There

is no structured plot — in its place is a depiction of a common man’s perseverance as the world wears away at him.

Stan’s alienation from his family, friends and community is exacerbated by life’s constant shatterings of his attempts to get ahead. He tries to get an engine to fix his car, but it falls off the back of his friend’s truck and breaks. He heads to a horse race with his family and friends, but they get a flat tire and end up having to hitch a ride home.

The American myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” doesn’t exist for Stan. Instead, he must work endlessly to just barely keep his family above the abyss of extreme poverty.

The rest of the film serves as a sharp juxtaposition to Stan’s life.

Spread across the movie are vignettes of children living, laughing and playing in the neighborhood. A young boy is playfully harassed by a group of older girls, children dar-

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ingly dash across the rooftops of an apartment complex, a group of kids toss rocks at each other, and so on and so forth.

The sound and vision of their laughter and smiles are a bright respite to Stan’s reality. It’s especially important to note that every child portrayed was a resident of Watts, and Burnett simply captured them playing about in their community.

As the camera tracks along with the children running down the street, we see their laughter as a representation of hope. Even after the constant setbacks and backbreaking labor we view throughout the film, we consistently return to this view of brightness and youth.

The laughter of these young people — and the smiles they bring to the adults — shows that there is a light in the community that cannot be extinguished.

Burnett’s goal in making “Killer of Sheep” wasn’t to romanticize the struggles of the community he was from — rather, he tries to force viewers to question the straightforward realities he was presenting.

What is the root of Stan’s mental and physical anguish? Why does the joy we see in the children ebb as they reach adulthood?

Burnett never gives any easy answers to these questions, nor does he personify the systemic oppression that the Watts community faces in any character. Instead, within every frame, we feel the invisible weight of capitalism and white supremacy bearing down on the characters as they go about their lives.

Despite the incalculable suffering portrayed, the characters aren’t despondent in the face of a grim reality. Burnett shows that with youth and community, there is beauty and hope for the future.

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New female pastor at Grant Chapel AME adapts to pandemic

By Madeline Pukite @madelinepukite

Margaret McFaddin has continuously made a point to tie social justice into her preaching, and her work in Albuquerque is no different. “(The church) empowers you to be able to love people without restriction. That's really who we are and what we do,” McFaddin said.

McFaddin was appointed on Sept.

11 of last year to Grant Chapel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Albuquerque, and she currently serves as the second female pastor in the church’s history.

McFaddin started her work as a preacher in 2004 at a church in St. Louis, where she commuted 124 miles for every Sunday service. Preaching has taken McFaddin all around the nation, and she’s moved seven times for different assignments.

“If you do well where you are, and if there's a need for the church with your gifts and graces, the bishop makes a decision on where to send you,” McFaddin said.

In New Mexico, McFaddin has prioritized building community so

she can deliver meaningful sermons despite the pandemic forcing the church online.

“Keeping up with our members and what's going on in their lives, that informs our preaching as well,” McFaddin said.

Within the greater church community, McFaddin joined the New Mexico Council of Church’s efforts to address white privilege and racism.

“We just started, but I think one of the reasons I was asked to join was because I am a social justice preacher,” McFaddin said. “I don't have a problem with having hard conversations, so I guess that's why they picked me.”

McFaddin focuses most of her sermons around politics and current events affecting the Black community.

“This week, I know I'm going to talk about … well, I always talk about politics. I always thought Jesus was a politician,” McFaddin said. “I look at it as my task to interpret what's going on through the lens of scripture.”

McFaddin attended Eden Theological Seminary in Missouri, where she was surrounded by other individuals who were also passionate about integrating social justice into their preaching. That further influ-

enced the way she evangelizes.

“God spoke to me, and he said ... ‘America is enslaved,’” McFaddin said. “And the Black church has something to say to the world about what god can do if we let him. One of the driving forces for me is to let people know what the Black church really is about.”

According to McFaddin, social justice has been a key aspect of Black churches since their inception, and for her the church always provided a safe place for her community to heal.

McFaddin added that although Kamala Harris being picked as vice president was a historic event for the Black community, her nomination over Stacey Abrams reflects decades of respectability politics and microaggressions.

“Those are the things that we've always lived with and always dealt with,” McFaddin said. “In the Sunday morning worship, (churchgoers) expect those things to be addressed.

Yes, it's awful, but that's how we have grown to where we are now.”

McFaddin also described her first religious experience when, as a child, she watched universities in her area become integrated and thought it was the work of god.

“I remember telling my mom I

wanted to go to the University of Mississippi, and she said, ‘Well, baby, they don't let colored girls go there,’” McFaddin said. “The next year was the year that James Meredith integrated the University. And I remember telling my mom, ‘Oh, god did that just for me,’ as just, you know, four-year-old thinking.”

Being a woman posed challenges for McFaddin’s journey to becoming an ordained pastor.

“The AME church was the first Black denomination to ordain a female bishop, and that was in 2000,” McFaddin said. “It was hard, and the misogyny is there. But, as the spirit will, a way was made for women.”

One of the goals McFaddin has for the church moving forward is working on bringing back old members that could be reinvigorated by new leadership.

“People vote with their feet and their purse, so (if ) they're not happy, you don't see them,” McFaddin said. “When a change comes, everybody comes back to, ‘Let's kick the tires on the new pastor and see what he or she is going to be about.’

That's my goal.”

In the meantime, McFaddin has had to adjust to not being able to preach in front of a live audience

due to the pandemic.

“Black preaching is call and response, which is what we're so much used to,” McFaddin said.

“When you don't have that ... You have to really dig deep and be your own call and response. After 17 years, it's not that hard.”

Dawn Smith, a member of the Grant Chapel AME Church and a University of New Mexico alum, is looking forward to being able to attend McFaddin’s sermons in person.

“I have known her for many years through work inside our conference when she was a pastor at other churches,” Smith said. “She’s a hardworking woman of god, and I was very excited when I heard we got her as our new pastor. It has been good so far, and I can't wait until we are back in the sanctuary and the entire congregation can experience her in person.”

McFaddin will continue delivering sermons at Grant Chapel AME Church on Sundays at 11 a.m. on Facebook Live.

Madeline Pukite is a beat reporter at the Daily Lobo. She can be contacted at news@dailylobo.com or on Twitter @madelinepukite

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LEFT: Church members sit at the pews of the Grant Chapel AME Church prior to the recording of a live-streamed sermon. CENTER: Grant Chapel AME Church pastor, Margaret McFaddin, delivers a sermon on Sunday, Jan. 31.RIGHT: Recording equipment used to live-stream the sermon.

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By Ana Gutierrez @anaixchel_ Brianna Edey is the current president of the Multicultural Greek Council (MGC) and the University of New Mexico chapter of Zeta Phi Beta sorority.

When asked about what makes the “Divine Nine� — a collective of historically Black Greek letter organizations, with eight of the nine active at UNM — unique

compared to other organizations, she narrowed it all down to its rich history. “In fact, our (individual) organizations were created because we weren’t allowed in existing councils,� Edey said.

All of the Divine Nine organizations were founded throughout the 1900s, when Black students in the United States were often ostracized and banned from joining primarily white Greek organizations on college campuses, according to Edey.

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A bench located outside African American Student Services commemorating the fraternity Alpha Phi Alpha, one of the fraternities that make up the Divine Nine.

These Black Greek organizations were built by and for the “students who were the target of racism and in need of support as they matriculated on their campuses,� Edey said. “Organizations went beyond this to serve their community and create projects that would address issues directly affecting the Black community as a whole.�

In these same communities, Black students found “brotherhood and sisterhood in the pursuit to bring about social change,� and it allowed for African Americans to align themselves with “other individuals sharing common goals and ideals,� according to the National Pan-Hellenic Council.

According to UNM's African American Student Services (AASS), the Divine Nine are the “embodiments of the students’ initiative to contribute to the academic and political development of their school.� The Divine Nine didn’t just open the door for more Black Greek organizations to flourish, Edey said, but allowed for other multicultural Greek organizations to form. “A unique quality is the impact the Divine Nine makes on Greek culture,� Edey said. “By bringing traditions that are deeply rooted in

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The creation of the MGC was a result of an emergence of multicultural fraternities following the civil rights movement of the ‘60s, bringing forth a new pride within marginalized communities — African Americans, Hispanic/ Latinx, Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, etc. — as stated on the national MGC website.

Similar to how Black students sought out environments of solidarity within their college campuses, “multicultural fraternal organizations share a similar history,� according to the MGC. Each organization is unique in the sense that they each carry their own set of values. Delta Sigma Theta sorority, for example, has core values of scholarship, public service and sisterhood, according to their official website. All sororities and fraternities within the Divine Nine also share two major values: academic excellence and service to the community.

Multiple members from Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, Phi Beta Sigma fraternity and Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity were awarded the “Advancing Our Community

Award,� which is awarded to Greek life members who have displayed “continued service throughout their years at UNM,� according to the UNM Fraternity and Sorority Life website.

Every year, UNM’s Divine Nine members join forces with AASS to provide a jam-packed February for Black History Month, and 2021 is no different despite pandemicrelated challenges.

Alpha Phi Alpha member Miles Blakemore emceed a Black History Month kickoff brunch on Jan. 30, and Divine Nine members showed up in numbers at a CROWN Act town hall meeting on Feb. 4.

Future events include a social media event for Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, a discussion of hip hop and the Black Lives Matter movement with Georgia State University Africana studies professor Lakeyta Bonnette-Bailey and more informational events.

The full event calendar can be found on the AASS website or their Instagram account.

Ana Gutierrez is a freelance reporter at the Daily Lobo.

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By Megan Gleason @fabflutist2716

Papa’s Little Helpers MicroFarm is a local business with a mission to grow and promote healthy, locally grown food. Owner Rico Robinson has set a goal to better educate everyone — especially the Black community — on the importance of eating healthy.

While the business doesn’t currently provide a large variety of meal options, Robinson hopes that he can incorporate a delivery service with healthy meals in the future.

“It’s going to taste like soul food, but it’s going to be purely healthy food,” Robinson said.

Soul food — a rich, savory cuisine that originated in Black communities in the U.S. South — is centered around being flavorful, which Robinson takes full advantage of with the use of microgreens, or younger plants that are just as healthy as they are delectable.

J.E. Jamal Martín, a lecturer in Africana studies at the University of New Mexico with three health-related degrees, said soul food is a unique

tradition in the Black community.

“Soul food for me ... has always been about the transformation of human consciousness — spirit and psyche — in action while eating to live,” Martín wrote in an email to the Daily Lobo, referring to social movements in the ‘60s and ‘70s that similarly promoted soul music and soul power.

Robinson, who runs the microfarm on his own, got his start with the business after transitioning from 13 years of landscaping to gardening. After a drastic realization about his declining health, Robinson started changing his eating and drinking habits and lost about 150 pounds in seven months.

“I used to be almost 400 pounds, and I was losing everything. I had diabetes, high blood pressure, and I was avoiding dealing with it until they told me my liver was failing,” Robinson said. “That’s what scared me, and I was like, ‘I have to do something.’”

Now, Robinson has made it his mission to help others reach their health goals. After his experience growing microgreens for his own health transformation, he started taking them to market where they grew, literally and figuratively.

“Once you get into it, there is a great deal of growth,” Robinson said.

The National Center for Biotechnology Information published a peer-reviewed paper in 2010 with findings that Black individuals intake less healthy food and develop correlated diseases more than other races, which Robinson attributed to a lack of resources and money. Robinson said the solution is to make healthier foods more accessible and readily available.

“Where we’re located, every block you’re going to have a Circle K, you’re going to have a liquor store, you’re going to have a fast food restaurant, so we stay within our block ... and we go eat from those first,” Robinson said.

Martín said to be careful when looking at general health reports between different racial groups and reiterated what Robinson said about food deserts in Black communities, writing that “ZIP code is more predictive of well-being than genetic code.”

“One must examine multiple levels of racism, such as representational, ideological, discursive, interactional, institutional, structural and, of course, scientific racism,” Martín wrote to the Daily Lobo. “Making better use of critical thinking about thought and

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Frederico Robinson holds a fresh cut ‘bouquet’ of microgreens that he cut and arranged himself.

language helps us diminish stigmatization and discrimination.”

New Mexico overall also shows various racial health disparities, according to a 2019 report from the state's Department of Health.

Robinson said “any other state” would know what microgreens are, but there is very little knowledge of them in New Mexico.

In addition, Robinson said that a majority of the food in New Mexico actually comes from other states, which means it has likely gone stale after being shipped from warehouse to warehouse, shelf to shelf.

“There needs to be a lot more education (on) exactly how the farmers work … We need more local (food), and then we need to have more education on how they’re going to cook with these things,” Robinson said.

COVID-19 has provided a challenge, much like so many other establishments, in terms of getting business for Robinson. However, the pandemic has also caused a surge in health awareness, including healthy eating.

“Currently, SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 disease offers a framework for analysis of pub-

lic health nutrition,” Martín said.

“African Americans living under COVID-19 with pre-existing conditions related to micro and macro nutrition disorders, dysfunction and nutrition-related chronic diseases who also consume pork need to take caution.”

Papa’s Little Helpers MicroFarms is currently undergoing fundraising efforts to advance his goal of better accessibility to nutritious food. Robinson said a delivery service for healthier foods is his objective for the future, where a person could use DoorDash or a similar service to order, say, a microgreens wrap instead of a pizza.

“There’s nothing holding us back except for opportunity and education,” Robinson said. “Right now, what I want is to be able to go and have a spot that is going to be open for the Black community where they feel comfortable with me and (have) recipes that they’re familiar with.”

Megan Gleason is the culture editor at the Daily Lobo. She can be contacted at culture@dailylobo. com or on Twitter @fabflutist2716

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