Exploring food and farming rights and histories in urban communities

It may seem like an empty stomach is the worst thing about being poor, but for Junior it’s not being able to save his best friend.

This graphic from Mother Jones magazine depicts income inequality in the United States.

Rosie Molinary describes how she felt as a Latina teenager in the United States, caught between disparate and unrealistic beauty standards.

In 1830, the government began systematically removing all Native Americans from the Eastern United States. The removal of Cherokees from Georgia in 1838 has become known as the Trail of Tears. But there were, in fact, many such trails, as the Creeks, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Seminoles and other tribes were forced to abandon their homelands.

In this cartoon, people of all sexes, ages, shapes and sizes are lined up outside the Gospel Mission, waiting for food. A mother in line remarks that they donated to this Mission just last year, inciting the feeling that circumstances can quickly change.

This graphic from Mother Jones depicts income inequality in the United States.