Why We Need Black-Owned Food Media

Bite by Mother Jones

Jul 24, 202056:02Arts

“When we don’t own our media, we will not own our messages,” says Stephen Satterfield, the founder of the food culture magazine Whetstone, and one of the only Black owners of a major food publication. Satterfield talks a...

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