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Back to SearchTending Episode 4: Texas
The fourth installment of the six-part Tending series explores the power of the USDA's county committees, recounting a Black family’s tragic story of land loss and harassment and examining why these …
Published on 10 hours ago
Tending Episode 3: Kansas
In the third episode of her six-part Tending series, host Shirlette Ammons visits Nicodemus, Kansas, a historic Black settlement, to learn how one family’s decades-long battle against the USDA’s disc…
Published on 1 week ago
Tending Episode 2: Georgia
In this second episode of Tending, Shirlette Ammons travels to Georgia, where she meets two Black farmers whose stories illustrate the emotional and physical toll of fighting the USDA's discriminatio…
Published on 2 weeks ago
Tending Episode 1: North Carolina
In the first episode of “Tending,” host Shirlette Ammons begins a journey to reclaim her family's legacy by exploring the largest civil rights lawsuit in U.S. history, Pigford v. Glickman, in which B…
Published on 3 weeks ago
Tending: A Preview
Listen to Gravy's preview of “Tending,” a 6-part weekly narrative series debuting October 15, 2025. Hosted by award-winning musician and documentary producer Shirlette Ammons, “Tending” explores the …
Published on 3 weeks, 5 days ago
The Long Recovery: Farmers and Hurricane Helene
In “The Long Recovery: Farmers and Hurricane Helene,” Gravy producer Irina Zhorov looks at how North Carolina farmers are building back after Hurricane Helene and finds that many still have a long wa…
Published on 4 weeks ago
An Orthodox Jewish Congregation Keeps on (Food) Truckin' in Birmingham
In “An Orthodox Jewish Congregation Keeps on (Food) Truckin' in Birmingham,” Gravy producer Margaret Weinberg Norman documents the story of JJ’s Sandwich Shop, a glatt kosher deli on wheels operated …
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
Southern Cooking Comes to Portugal
In “Southern Cooking Comes to Portugal,” Gravy producer Adwoa Gyimah-Brempong takes listeners to Porto, the second largest city in Portugal, which anchors the northern region. Porto is famous for its…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
We Sure Eat Good When Someone Dies
In “We Sure Eat Good When Someone Dies,” Gravy producer Caleb Johnson takes listeners back to August 2024, when his extended family gathered inside a Baptist church in Arley, Alabama, to mourn the lo…
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago
Virginia Public Schools Serve Indigenous Cuisine
In “Virginia Public Schools Serve Indigenous Cuisine,” Gravy producer Anya Groner takes listeners to the second annual Indigenous Peoples Feast at the College of William & Mary. The evening’s menu sh…
Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago