High on the Hog: Freedom - Episode Showing in Celebration of Juneteenth! In-Person
The fourth episode of High on the Hog: How African Cuisine Transformed America, a Netflix documentary series, begins with the voice of Laura Smalley. In a crackly recording from 1941, Smalley, a former enslaved person in Hempstead, tells the story of the day she learned she was no longer shackled to the land she tended—two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation. “You know what? Ol’ master didn’t tell you no one was free,” Smalley recalls. “Turned them loose on the nineteenth of June. That’s why we celebrate that day.”
The striking decision to start a Texas-centered episode with Smalley’s voice is the first of many careful considerations we see in the series, which is based on a 2011 book by culinary historian Jessica B. Harris. High on the Hog, now available for streaming, takes viewers on a journey to celebrate Black American history and food. The four-part documentary centers Black Americans’ crucial, and often erased, contributions to American food culture.
To read the entire article, please follow this link: https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/high-on-the-hog-food-history-netflix/
- Date:
- Tuesday, June 13, 2023
- Time:
- 4:30pm - 5:20pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Auditorium
- Branch:
- New Albany Main Library
- Audience:
- Adults Teens (6th - 12th)
- Categories:
- Community Events