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Crossing the ChasmCrossing the Chasm with Malik Yakini (Co-Founder, Detroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network)Welcome to Crossing the Chasm. On today’s episode, I am joined by Malik Yakini, co-founder and former executive director of the Detroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network. In that capacity, he provided leadership and vision on many projects, including the Detroit Food Policy Council, the D-Town Farm, and the Detroit Food Commons. On today’s show we talk about Malik’s work around food justice and black sovereignty, the history of Detroit, and his assessment of the present moment in society. I hope you enjoy the conversation! Detroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network and D-Town...2025-06-1652 min
Everything Co-op with Vernon OakesMalik Kenyatta Yakini, Discusses Food Sovereignty, and the Detroit People’s Food Co-opJanuary 16, 2025
Malik Kenyatta Yakini, Director of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network (DBCFSN). Vernon and Malik discuss the food sovereignty movement, and the Detroit Peoples Food Co-op's progress and challenges since its opening.
Malik Kenyatta Yakini is an activist and educator who is committed to freedom and justice for African people in particular, and humanity in general. Yakini is a co-founder and the Executive Director of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network, which operates a seven-acre farm in Detroit and spearheaded efforts to establish the Detroit Food Policy Council. He served as a member of the Michigan Food...2025-02-0656 min
Detroit is DifferentNourishing Detroit's Future: Organizing & Food Justice with Malik YakiniDetroit is Different welcomes back Baba Malik Yakini for the 10-year anniversary episode of the Detroit is Different podcast. As both a witness and a catalyst for change, Baba Malik shares his personal growth over the years. Understanding the importance of vision, institutional resilience, and community engagement, he reflects on the challenges and triumphs of building a sustainable movement. His commitment to creating spaces where Detroiters can reclaim agency over their food systems stands as a testament to the city's enduring spirit of ingenuity and self-determination.
Baba Malik was the first guest on the podcast, which initially...2024-11-141h 07
Everything Co-op with Vernon OakesMalik Yakini & Lanay Gilbert-Williams discuss the Detroit Food Sovereignty NetworkApril 4, 2024
Vernon interviews Malik Kenyatta Yakini, Director of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network (DBCFSN), and Lanay Gilbert-Williams, Board President of the Detroit People’s Food Co-op. Vernon and his guests discuss the Detroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network and the Grand Opening of the Detroit Food Commons.
Malik Kenyatta Yakini is an activist and educator who is committed to freedom and justice for African people in particular, and humanity in general. Yakini is a co-founder and the Executive Director of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network, which operates a seven-acre farm in Detroit and spearheaded efforts to esta...2024-04-2151 min
Authentically DetroitIntroducing the Detroit People’s Food Co-Op with Akil Talley, Lanay Gilbert-Williams, and Malik YakiniThis week Chase Cantrell joined Authentically Detroit as guest host and Akil Talley, Lanay Gilbert-Williams, and Malik Yakini of the Detroit People’s Food Co-Op gave a sneak peek into how they’re changing Detroit’s food ecosystem.Opening on May 1st, the Detroit People’s Food Co-Op is a Black-led and community-owned grocery cooperative. Following a model developed throughout the world as a way to increase access to healthy, sustainably grown food, the Detroit People’s Food Co-Op is located in the historic North End neighborhood. The Detroit People’s Food Co-Op will offer a full-line o...2024-04-021h 11
Beverly D truth2powerChungulia MNwzie; Eliminating the love of power2create the power of loveChungulia MNwzie; Eliminating the love of power2create the power of love Special Guest: Malik Yakini and Halie Ayah Israel Food 4 the body and spirit2024-03-193h 20
Chungulia MNwzie; Eliminating the love of power2create the power of loveChungulia MNwzie; Eliminating the love of power2create the power of love
Special Guest: Malik Yakini and Halie Ayah Israel
Food 4 the body and spirit2024-03-193h 21
Detroit is DifferentOvertime, the Work and Purpose have changed Malik Yakini; learn what’s next in his JourneyMalik Yakini is the original Detroit is Different guest in April of 2014. Nine years later, his work and efforts continue to blossom in introspection and observation about how strengthening the Black Family and Community are related. During this third appearance on Detroit is Different, Baba Malik opens up about the sabbatical and authoring of his book. Learn about his journey from working at a Record Store to working with the Detroit Black Food Security Network. We also explore the relationship between generations and the value of intergenerational organizing and community building. Understand how Baba Malik has grown his views...2023-06-151h 28
BLD Presents: Speak For YourselfBLD Presents: Speak For Yourself - EP16 - Malik Yakini, Executive Director of Detroit Black Community Food Security Network (DBCFSN)BLD Presents: Speak For Yourself - BLD interviews Black entrepreneurs and other changemakers about issues surrounding access to capital, equity, and more.In this episode, Dwan and Ken speak with Malik Yakini, Executive Director of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network (DBCFSN) about combatting food insecurity in the city.To learn more about DBCFSN, go to: https://www.dbcfsn.org/This week's ad spotlights our upcoming third annual seven day, 377-mile Ride For Equity we undertake from Detroit to The Mackinac Policy Conference to call attention to the lack of access to...2023-04-071h 06
Detroit is DifferentBlack Leaders Detroit is a lifelong mission for Dwan DandridgeSelf Determination and collective responsibility are pillars in the principles of Kwanzaa, but also ethics of life. Dwan Dandridge’s work with Black Leaders Detroit challenges Black people to delve deeper into our resources to resource our organizations, businesses, and entrepreneurs. Dwan’s story of arriving in this space is a mix of commitment to community, development of a business, and passion for supporting Black people. Dwan’s dynamic journey to founding and leading Black Leaders Detroit began from his testimony in learning best practices to build infrastructures that can empower others and support families. We talk about George Washin...2022-12-311h 43
The Crotchety Old Men PodcastThe American Food DilemmaMalik Kenyatta Yakini is co-founder and Executive Director of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network (DBCFSN). DBCFSN operates the seven-acre D-Town Farm and is spearheading the opening of, the Detroit Food Commons, in Detroit’s North End that will house the Detroit People’s Food Co-op. He serves as a board member of the co-op. Yakini views the work of DBCFSN as part of the larger movement for building power, self-determination, and justice. Malik Kenyatta Yakini is co-founder and Executive Director of the Detroit Black Community. He has an intense interest in contributing to the development of an interna...2022-12-2849 min
MYB: Mind Your Herbs PodcastSE3 104 Malik Yakini from Detroit Black Food Security NetworkOn this Episode of the Mind Your Herbs Podcast we discuss the Black Food Security Network with Malik Yakini2022-12-0135 min
Everything Co-op with Vernon OakesMalik Yakini and Trevor Claiborn discuss food sovereignty and food alliances in Communities of ColorSeptember 8, 2022
Our host, Vernon Oakes interviews Malik Kenyatta Yakini, Director of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network (DBCFSN), and Trevor Claiborn, Sr. Co-founder of Black Soil: Our Better Nature. Vernon and his guests discuss the food sovereignty movement, and how cooperative food alliances, and the focus on Ag marketing and food distribution has impacted communities of color.
Malik Kenyatta Yakini is an activist and educator who is committed to freedom and justice for African people in particular, and humanity in general. Yakini is a co-founder and the Executive Director of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network, which operates...2022-09-2151 min
The Past & Future of Urban AgricultureFor quite some time, urban agriculture has been the red-headed stepchild of farming. Sneered at and not taken seriously, urban farmers didn’t care. They just wanted to grow food for themselves, for their families and for their communities.
But as urban agriculture progressed and operations grew and became more sophisticated, there were many leaders who felt that urban agriculture did not deserve it’s place in the shadows, that it was just as legitimate form of agriculture as other forms of farming. And that it deserved recognition and most importantly the support that most farming operations get...2022-07-211h 09Authentically DetroitMoving Mountains with Black Philanthropy w/Tosha Tabron & Meredith FreemanAmazing things can happen when Black philanthropic professionals across sectors come together to make intentional investments in Black led ideas and projects. Shoutout to Baba Malik Yakini of The Detroit Black Community Food Security Network (DBCFS) and the work they've been doing for years!This episode, Donna and Orlando sit down with two of Detroit's most respected philanthropic leaders, Meredith Freeman (Max & Majorie Fisher Foundation) and Tosha Tabron (Kresge Foundation) to talk about collaboration, low cost capital, redefining risk, and market indicators. It's a really demystifying conversation! Hot Takes Story:Council president floats...2022-07-061h 17
Distinctly DetroitDistinctly Detroit Podcast - Season 2, Episode 13: Malik Yakini of MollywopThe University of Michigan Detroit Center has participated in the annual Concert of Colors for ten years. The Concert of Colors is Metro Detroit's free annual diversity themed music festival and 2022 is the 30th Anniversary of the event. The University of Michigan Detroit Center produces the "Wolverine Outdoor Stage" at the festival and this year is going to be our best production. Welcome to a special edition of the Distinctly Detroit Podcast, highlighting some of the performers that will be energizing the Wolverine Outdoor Stage July 2022. Today, we have the honor of speaking with Malik Yakini. Malik is the band...2022-06-2450 min
Being with ButterflyBeing with Bro Malik Yakini | ep fiveButterfly chats with musician and community leader, Bro Malik Yakini about his self relationship journey.
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Bioneers: Revolution From the Heart of NatureNourishing the Future: Creating a Just and Healthy Food System for AllCommunities around the country are working to create a new food future founded in health, justice and ecological wellbeing. Community activists Malik Kenyatta Yakini and Oran Hesterman are transforming Detroit through urban agriculture and helping low-income and working families access healthy food. Cathryn Couch works with young people to cook and deliver healthy meals to people who are ill and struggling to put food on the table with a model program using food as medicine.This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to find out...2022-04-2628 min
America DissectedThe Means of Consumption with Malik YakiniFood insecurity affects millions of Americans — a disproportionate number of them are Black. What are the consequences of the way we produce food in our society — and how do they shape who gets healthy, accessible, affordable food, and who doesn’t? Abdul reflects on our food system and speaks with Malik Yakini, co-founder and Executive Director of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network.For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/americadissected.
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Sankofa's DiaryProfound interview with Malik Yakini on urban community farming, Diaspora relations with AfricaIntimate conversation with Malik Yakini about urban community farming, food security, Diaspora/African relations.2022-02-0635 min
Riverwise PodcastShimekia Nichols of SoulardarityShimekia Nichols shares how traditional 9-5 work left her disinterested and unfulfilled. The void led her to volunteer at D Town Farms, Detroit Food Security Network, and We The People Detroit. Witnessing the unified effort, peopled pace and strategic brilliance of Baba Malik Yakini and Monica Lewis Patrick inspired the path Shimekia walks today. Today she leads Souladarity, a small but mighty non-profit housed in Highland Park that has become a locally and nationally recognized leader in energy democracy that aims to be a model of energy resilience and Just-transition toward clean and community-owned solar. This movement in red...2022-02-0233 min
Detroit is DifferentShimekia Nichols shares how Green Justice, Family, Education, and Community Work is African-CenteredLiving, working, and raising a family in Highland Park has committed Shimekia Nichols to a mission larger than just her own. The Executive Director of Souladarity has rich roots grounded from her family’s background in Detroit’s Southwest neighborhood 48217, known for being the most environmentally polluted zip code in Michigan. After that, in keeping pace with her creative, African-centered, and knowledge-seeking mother, Shimekia followed suit. An Aisha Shule & W.E.B. DuBois Preparatory Academy graduate Shimekia’s African-centered orientation to the world is put to the test as she and her organization work to restore the streetlights that were r...2022-01-261h 03
Detroit is DifferentBaba Malik Yakini on Detroit is Different 2021Malik Yakini is a Detroit original. Naturally creative and driven towards a higher quality of life through Black Liberation, Gardening, and seeking Knowledge are pillars of life I’ve witnessed from Baba Malik. He was the original guest on Detroit is Different and seven years later he joins me again to speak in more of the macro on philosophy, theory, and the need for action in our community. Malik is dynamic from works leading reggae band (Akoben), helping found an African centered school (Nsoroma Institute), book stoor (Black Star Community Bookstore), Urban Farm (D-Town Farms), Food Co-op (Detroit People’s Fo...2021-12-131h 30
The Right Authority hosted by The KCOGThe Right Authority podcast Hosted by The KCOGWe welcome Malik Yakini from The Detroit Black Community Food Security Network and Black Food Justice Alliance. Truly revolutionary!2021-10-2837 min
Food & Justice w/ Brenda SandersMalik Yakini of Detroit Black Community Food Security Network (Encore Presentation)ABOUT OUR GUEST: Malik Kenyatta Yakini is an activist and educator who is committed to freedom and justice for African people in particular and humanity in general. Yakini is a co-founder and the Executive Director of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network, which operates a seven-acre farm in Detroit and spearheaded efforts to establish the Detroit Food Policy Council, which he chaired from December 2009 - May 2012. He served as a member of the Michigan Food Policy Council from 2008 - 2010. From 2011 - 2013 he served on the steering committee of Uprooting Racism Planting Justice. He is...2021-09-1452 min
Food & Justice w/ Brenda SandersPremiere Episode! Interview with Malik Yakini of Detroit Black Community Food Security NetworkABOUT OUR GUEST: Malik Kenyatta Yakini is an activist and educator who is committed to freedom and justice for African people in particular and humanity in general. Yakini is a co-founder and the Executive Director of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network, which operates a seven-acre farm in Detroit and spearheaded efforts to establish the Detroit Food Policy Council, which he chaired from December 2009 - May 2012. He served as a member of the Michigan Food Policy Council from 2008 - 2010. From 2011 - 2013 he served on the steering committee of Uprooting Racism Planting Justice. He is a...2021-09-1152 min
with AUDACITYGrowing with AUDACITY with Baba Malik Yakini“bout that health, wealth & social change;
My fruits and veggies be off the chain” - grow food x Appetite for Change (Minneapolis youth non-profit)
Dr. Jas, Dr. Kara, and Lawyer Jas were joined by Detroit’s very own, Baba Malik Yakini as they dive into how farming is more than growing food, its growing community.
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The Poor Prole’s AlmanacMalik Yakini & Community-Led Urban Farming in DetroitIn this episode, we review a quick history of urban farming in Detroit and interview Malik Yakini, the Executive Director of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network & D-Town Farms. We chat about the role of dual power systems to challenge capitalism and the role of self-determination in making meaningful change in communities. Interview starts around 22 minutes!
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Sea Moss GirliesEpisode 13: Food + Climate Change — Part 2Episode 13: Food + Climate Change — Part 2
Kate and Emma offer you with solutions to restructure the Modern Food System -- from addressing structural racism and food apartheid, to implementing regenerative agriculture practices. We touch on key policy interventions to address climate change, public health disparities, and economic inequality with a better food system. Kate and Emma talk on the importance of utilizing soil as a carbon sink, crop and livestock rotation, and fighting for better working conditions and labor rights of farmers.
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Bioneers: Revolution From the Heart of NatureNourishing the Future: Creating a Just and Healthy Food System for AllCommunities around the country are working to create a new food future founded in health, justice and ecological wellbeing. Community activists Malik Kenyatta Yakini and Oran Hesterman are transforming Detroit through urban agriculture and helping low-income and working families access healthy food. Cathryn Couch works with young people to cook and deliver healthy meals to people who are ill and struggling to put food on the table with a model program using food as medicine.2020-11-1829 min
ShopTalkPodcastEP216 - VerzuzWelcome back to #Shoptalkpodcast ep216. This week the fellas discuss the Jada vs Fab battle, Jada vs August, NBA vs corona, and set the stage for a J vs Dame verzuz battle.
Make sure you check out a video shot and edited of a great conversation between Fairo/ Raphael Wright and Malik Yakini. Must see.
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Detroit is DifferentIkaje Ajamu of Liberated FarmsDr. Ikaje Ajamu is a Father, Farmer, and Community resource for Black people. Ikaje is the gardener helping develop the land in Detroit is Different to start the garden on Clements. Activating land and turning land into food from the Earth is one of Ikaje’s passions. In this interview, he goes in-depth about his tense encounters with Police, White neighbors, and American society against his journey in farming and more. Ikaje shares perspective on Black independence and strength. He discusses how he has enacted his vision for Liberated Farms nationwide while honoring the lessons of Baba Malik Yakini an...2020-06-181h 17
The Best Advice ShowFollowing Through with Malik YakiniMalik Yakini is a Detroiter, musician, father, grandfather and the Executive Director of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network. So much of this show is going to originate with your hard-earned advice. To contribute please call me (Zak) at 844-935-BEST. Leave your name and your advice, followed by your email address in case I have any follow-up questions.Regarding your advice. I’m not particularly interested in platitudes and truisms. I’m after specific, odd, uplifting, effective, real tips from you about how you make it through your days. Our GDPR...2020-06-0803 min
The Best Advice ShowFollowing Through with Malik YakiniMalik Yakini is a Detroiter, musician, father, grandfather and the Executive Director of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network.
So much of this show is going to originate with your hard-earned advice. To contribute please call me (Zak) at 844-935-BEST. Leave your name and your advice, followed by your email address in case I have any follow-up questions.
Regarding your advice. I’m not particularly interested in platitudes and truisms. I’m after specific, odd, uplifting, effective, real tips from you about how you make it through your days.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adcho2020-06-0802 min
Detroit is DifferentGabrielle Knox on Detroit is DifferentOn Detroit is Different we feature Gabrielle Knox. Gabrielle Knox is young in years but wise in organization. Developing Detroit Poetry Society with a collective of friends propelled Gabrielle into visionary and leadership roles. The drive and interest of many poets like Gabrielle and Sheezy Bo Beezy connected artists eager to express spoken word seeking stages, venues, and opportunities. In this Detroit is Different feature learn about Gabrielle’s relationship with family and community. Today leading Operation Care Kit Detroit Gabrielle works providing resources to people in Detroit experiencing homelessness. This all rooted in ideas and lessons learned from Da...2020-05-081h 32
Professor Herb Boyd..Black Panther: Paradigm Shift Or Not?Co Host Gugualia
Joining us Malik Yakini, D Town Farm & Dr. Bombay
Professor Herb Boyd is an awarding winning Author, Journalist, Educator and Activist. He has written or edited over 20 books and published countless articles for national magazines and newspapers; including New York’s Amsterdam News. Along with his writing, Professor Herb Boyd is national and international correspondent for Free Speech TV. A graduate of Wayne State University in Detroit, Professor Herb Boyd teaches African and African-American History at the College of New Rochelle in the Bronx, and is an instructor at City College in the Black Studies Department. Professor Herb Boyd w...2019-03-282h 55
Detroit is DifferentKhary Frazier ep 100Episode Notes
What began as a platform to share my music and introduce people to my friends, mentors, and people of Detroit I think are cool is now a strong media platform. Today through video, social media, podcasting, and graphic design Detroit is Different has impacted the world. Dr’s have used Detroit is Different interviews as material supporting research, magazines in Italy have used Detroit is Different content in publication, but the coolest thing is people like you follow Detroit is Different.
Today I’m interviewed by my great friend Sterling Toles. We talk Detr...2018-09-191h 28
Piper Carter PodcastMalik YakiniEpisode Notes
Malik Yakini from Mollywop, Detroit Black Community Food Security Network, & D-TownFarm discuses New Music, Community Self Sufficiency, The New Food Co-Op, The Importance of African Centered Education + Detroit History
We ask those who have not yet made a donation to the D-Town Farm, and are able to do so, to contribute what you can to the Facebook Fundraiser or donate on our website, www.dbcfsn.org. Contributions can also be mailed to:
Detroit Black Community Food Security Network
11000 W. McNichols
Detroit, MI 48221
Piper Carter is the founder of 'We...2018-08-021h 41
Everything Co-op with Vernon OakesMalik Yakini, Director, Detroit Peoples Black Community Food Security NetworkMalik Kenyatta Yakini, Director, Detroit Peoples Black Community Food Security Network is interviewed by Vernon Oakes, host of Everything Co-op. Vernon and Malik discuss initiatives of the Detroit Peoples Food Co-op, and the journey his organization has taken to establish a food cooperative, while raising funds to purchase the building for the co-op and serving as the developer for the building
Malik Kenyatta Yakini is an activist and educator who is committed to freedom and justice for African people in particular and humanity in general. Yakini is a co-founder and the Executive Director of the Detroit Black Community Food Security...2018-07-1848 min
A Thousand Natural Shocks With Gabe S. DunnThink Before You Open Your Mouth (aka the Food System)Maybe you don't consider how your meal is contributing to oppression. But at Bad With Money, we're here to tell you, it might be! To learn more, we turned to some incredible guests: Malik Yakini is the executive director of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network, which aims to promote food sovereignty for communities of color in Detroit. Amani Olugbala is both an alumna and now facilitator of the Black and Latinx Farmers Immersion Program at Soul Fire Farm in Upstate New York. And in New York City, Onika Abraham runs Farm School NYC, which educates people interested in...2018-06-1348 min
The Racist Sandwich PodcastE50: Detroiters are Fighters (w/ Devita Davison, Malik Yakini & Serena Maria Daniels)We're in Detroit for our 50th episode! And we're talking about the city's enduring food legacy. While a lot of food media often likens Detroit's food scene to a "Renaissance" of sorts, led predominantly by white chefs from the suburbs, the truth is it never went anywhere. People of color have been on the ground from day one, continuing to build upon generations of black and brown entrepreneurship, farming and food activism. And those Detroiters have been the ones who've refused to give up on Detroit – even when it seemed the rest of the world had. In this narrated pie...2018-06-0631 min
For The WildMALIK YAKINI on a Food Sovereign Future in Detroit /75Malik Kenyatta Yakini is an activist and educator who is committed to freedom and justice for humanity. Yakini is co-founder and Executive Director of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network (DBCFSN). DBCFSN operates a seven-acre urban farm and is spearheading the opening of a co-op grocery store in Detroit’s North End. Support the show2018-05-0358 min
The YB2C Live! PodcastYB2C Live! Podcast Ep. #28 D-Town Farm with Malik YakiniFor the months of September and October, YB2C Live! Is focusing on urban farmers and agribusinesses. In this episode, Pam and Keith sit down with Malik Yakini of D-Town Farm. D-Town Farm was founded by a collective of people all with a mission to create a comprehensive food policy in the city. D-Town has a total of 7 acres, making it the largest urban farm in the city of Detroit, with solar energy, three coop houses, and 30 different fruits, vegetables, and herbs currently growing on the farm. Malik did not start in the fa...2017-10-1000 min
Bioneers: Revolution From the Heart of NatureNourishing the Future: Creating a Just and Healthy Food System for All - Malik Kenyatta Yakini, Oran Hesterman and Cathryn Couch | Bioneers Radio Series XVI (2016)Communities around the country are working to create a new food future founded in health, justice and ecological wellbeing. Community activists Malik Kenyatta Yakini and Oran Hesterman are transforming Detroit through urban agriculture and helping low-income and working families access healthy food. Cathryn Couch works with young people to cook and deliver healthy meals to people who are ill and struggling to put food on the table with a model program using food as medicine.2017-05-1527 min
Bioneers: Revolution From the Heart of NatureNourishing the Future: Creating a Just and Healthy Food System for All - Malik Kenyatta Yakini, Oran Hesterman and Cathryn Couch | Bioneers Radio Series XVI (2016)Communities around the country are working to create a new food future founded in health, justice and ecological wellbeing. Community activists Malik Kenyatta Yakini and Oran Hesterman are transforming Detroit through urban agriculture and helping low-income and working families access healthy food. Cathryn Couch works with young people to cook and deliver healthy meals to people who are ill and struggling to put food on the table with a model program using food as medicine.2016-09-2127 min
Bioneers: Ecological Food and FarmingFood, Race and Justice | Malik YakiniMalik Yakini, Executive Director of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network, will explore how the current industrial food system that supplies most of our food creates inequities, based in part on the social construct we call “race.” He will share wise perspectives on addressing racism, thinking beyond the logic of capitalism and how we might create a more just, sustainable food system. Introduction by Greg Watson, Schumacher Center. This speech was given at the 2015 National Bioneers Conference. Since 1990, Bioneers has acted as a fertile hub of social and scientific innovators with practical and visionary solutions for the world's most pres...2016-04-2624 min
Sustainable Farming – The Marc Steiner ShowSound Bites: Impact Of Sewage Pollution In Baltimore’s Harbor | Detroit Black Community Food Security Network | Recipe: Palestinian Easter Kaik With DatesMarch 24, 2016 - Hour 2 - On Sound Bites, we get an update on the state of sewage pollution in the Baltimore Harbor. Then, we talk with Malik Yakini, Executive Director of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network, and get a Palestinian Easter recipe from Laila El-Haddad.2016-03-2552 min
Bioneers: Revolution From the Heart of NatureShapeshifting Detroit: Overcoming Drive-By Economics - Malik Kenyatta Yakini, Lottie Spady and Sister Gloria Rivera | Bioneers Radio Series XIV (2014)The citizens of Detroit are challenging the failed policies that have long favored corporate wealth over the well being of city residents. Leading change-makers Malik Kenyatta Yakini, Lottie Spady and Sister Gloria Rivera are seeding community resilience with one of the most robust urban agricultural movements in the U.S., while contradicting the manipulative media narratives that justify oppression.2016-02-1528 min
Solving The Food Crisis for African Americans & Who and What is ISIS?Listen to The African History Network Show Thursday, Sept. 18th, 8:00pm-11:00pm EST with host Michael Imhotep. 1) “Solving The Food Crisis Among African Americans. We’ll speak with Malik Yakini of the Black Food Security Network. We’ll learn about what they do and the “8th Annual D-Town Farm Harvest Festival” coming up on Detroit this weekend. 2) Abayomi Azikiwe, Editor of the Pan-African Newswire will update us on Ebola Virus and the crisis in West Africa and “Who & What Is ISIS”. Sen. John Kerry testified in front of Congress on Sept. 17th making the case to gain financial support in fighting ISIS. Wha...2014-09-192h 54
Bioneers: Revolution From the Heart of NatureShapeshifting Detroit: Overcoming Drive-By Economics - Malik Kenyatta Yakini, Lottie Spady and Sister Gloria Rivera | Bioneers Radio Series XIV (2014)The citizens of Detroit are challenging the failed policies that have long favored corporate wealth over the well being of city residents. Leading change-makers Malik Kenyatta Yakini, Lottie Spady and Sister Gloria Rivera are seeding community resilience with one of the most robust urban agricultural movements in the U.S., while contradicting the manipulative media narratives that justify oppression.2014-08-1828 min
Detroit is DifferentDetroit is Different with guest Malik YakiniDetroit is Different is about exposing artistry, business, ideas, and the dynamic people, places, and things that I know make Detroit a mecca. The movement is supported by www.detroitisdifferent.com, social networking friends, an email list, and a podcast.The Detroit is Different podcast starts off running. I hosted a live event where I recorded a conversation with Malik Yakini. The event was 7 o’clock Saturday Stories. Malik Yakini is a person [...]2014-04-291h 43
2014 Eliminating the love of power to create the power of loveThis is a power pack show because of the powerful guests joining us tonight...Co-host .Chungulia Mnwzie, Balance vision number reader...Alvin S. Woods, author of Guns,Drugs,Gangs, & Anger...Baba Malik Yakini, , founder of Nsoroma Institute, an Independent African centered school....Woody Brian, Advance numerologist and the creature of balance vision, he will discuss the global view of our future thru numbers....Priest Haile from Hawaii2014-03-212h 10
Eliminating the love of power to create the power of loveThis is a power pack show because of the powerful guests joining us tonight...Co-host .Chungulia Mnwzie, Balance vision number reader...Alvin S. Woods, author of Guns,Drugs,Gangs, & Anger...Baba Malik Yakini, , founder of Nsoroma Institute, an Independent African centered school....Woody Brian, Advance numerologist and the creature of balance vision, he will discuss the global view of our future thru numbers....Priest Haile from Hawaii2013-03-182h 03