Music, family, your cell phone, a home –what are you thankful for?  These are just a few of the things that our 7th grade Radio Rootz class at East Flatbush Community Research School are thankful for.  While there is so much to be thankful for, there are some things that they could also go without.

Aired on Wake up Call on WBAI 99.5 FM, click on the player below to listen and think of what you are happy to have, and maybe something you could change, this Thanksgiving.

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On this Thanksgiving Day, many families are sitting down to a dinner
made with fresh foods from a local grocery store.  Yet there are many
communities where there is no local grocery.  And you don’t have to
look far. These places exist in cities all over the country.  Even in
our nation’s capital, there are huge sections of the city where fresh,
nutrient-rich food is hard to find.

In this documentary, ten
youth explore the culture of eating in a city where
some of the most iconic foods are the half-smoke: an extra large
sausage split down the middle and usually topped with chili, and
something called mambo sauce, which looks like ketchup but more
gelatinous.  They also looked at the challenges of some communities’ access
to healthy, affordable food in their neighborhood. Their search took
them from the local carry-out, to their schools vending machines to the
soil in their own backyards.

Click below to listen to the documentary which will be Aired on Free Speech Radio News and the Pacific Radio Network.