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Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story is about a black waiter named Booker Wright who worked at a whites-only restaurant. Booker later opened his own restaurant called "Booker's Place," which was fire-bombed.

Cookin’ & Eatin’ is an intimate culinary journey in the tradition of the family-style dinner. You are welcome to sit, laugh, cry, contemplate, and, most importantly, get full. This interaction of Cookin’ & Eatin’ centers on themes of service toward community, hospitality, self-actualization, and justice denied. A complementary PDF of the text will be available to those who RSVP.

Program, program notes, and food by Janelle A.M., an artist and archivist whose work reclaims historical narratives rooted within Black communal structures while allowing for interventions of nostalgia and folklore to take hold. her work often uses modes of collage, photography, installation and found objects.