Selasa, 29 Desember 2009

Why Some Folks Eat Collard Greens on New Year’s

Frances Warren was born in Atlanta in 1928, but spent most of her childhood in Miami, Florida. She noted that, during her childhood, most fa...

North Carolinian Reginald Ward said, “I don’t care where you are, in New York” black folk on New Year’s Day are going to eat “strictly pork....

When they relocated to places like New York, St. Louis, and Chicago, Southern migrants brought with them a tradition of church membership ...

“Watch Night,” or New Year’s Eve service, is another African-American southern religious tradition that I talk about in my book Hog and Homi...

This past Sunday evening I joined some members of my church in making dinner for the residents of the Tarrytown, New York YMCA. The resident...