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Soul Food

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Soul Food

By
Sean Jacobs

The trailer for director Byron Hurt‘s new film “Soul Food Junkies.” The film, “… explores the history and social significance of soul food to black cultural identity and its affect on African-American health, good and bad. Soul food will also be used as the lens to investigate the dark side of the food industry and the growing food justice movement that has been born in its wake.” You can watch a 12-minute web trailer here. Hurt, for those who forgot, also directed the highly acclaimed Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes that came out in 2006 and the short, Barack and Curtis.

Further Reading

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