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LaDonna Brave Bull Allard: Standing Rock Elder and Water Protector
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LaDonna Brave Bull Allard was a Standing Rock Sioux elder who spent most of her life educating people about the history of the land and protecting the sacred sites of her people in North Dakota. In 2016, she co-founded the Sacred Stone Camp on Standing Rock Sioux land to resist the building of the Dakota… Read more
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The significance of celebrating Juneteenth
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Bob Johnson, founding director of Juneteenth Atlanta, one of the largest Juneteenth celebrations in the U.S., discusses the significance of remembering the anniversary of June 19, 1865 – the day the last enslaved Africans and African Americans in the U.S. became free. “Juneteenth is a commemoration of all of those people who fought against slavery.… Read more
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Grandma Lan’s Vietnamese Thanksgiving Quail
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Last year, in a special Thanksgiving collaboration withI Am An Immigrant, Cooking with Granny traveled to California to tell the refugee immigrant story behind Grandma Lan’s crispy Vietnamese quail. It’s baked, fried, and flambeed – and served with a side of her famous fish sauce. Under Communist rule in Vietnam, Grandma Lan thrived as an… Read more
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Cooking With Granny: Grandma Louisa’s Trinidadian hot sauce
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Grandma Louisa’s hot sauce is pure fire. And I like to say, if you need protective gear to cook, then count me in. It must be extraordinary. And it is. This hot sauce contains 135 (!!!) Scotch bonnets, four types of peppers, exotic fruits like pickled mangoes and gooseberries, and some other weird little ingredients… Read more
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Cooking With Granny: Grandma Lumen’s Filipino purple yam pudding
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Grandma Lumen left the Philippines to become a public school teacher in the Bronx for more than 15years. But she never forgot the family recipe for her favorite Filipino dessert, ube halaya, or purple yam pudding.This woman is just one fantastic person whose poise and influence shine at the Philippine Consulate where it seemed like… Read more