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The Stoop: Watermelon

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Food has been historically used as a tool of discrimination against Black communities, whether it's in minstrel shows, commercials, or cartoons with images of characters in Blackface eating watermelon or fried chicken.

Today, in an episode from The Stoop podcast, we unpack the history of food shaming and hear how people are trying to fight it head on.