A feature documentary on food justice leader
Karen Washington and Rise and Root Farm
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Nationally-recognized Black activist Karen Washington and three other women bring their urban farming experience to a rural setting.
Rise Root Revolution follows these determined groundbreakers as they strive to build a business in a field of work that has long sought to keep them out.
“You can’t have that
hard conversation
around equity, around justice, if you don’t have that hard conversation
around the history of how we got land here, and the wealth that was built on the backs of indigenous people and enslaved Africans.”
– Karen Washington