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FOOD IS FREEDOM: Hamer Program & Black KC Farmers Continue Free Food Deliveries as SNAP Cuts Loom

By Ryan S. ● Agriculture ● October 29, 2025

The evening the food boxes arrived, a Black neighbor wept.

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Mass of KC Black Youth & Leaders Rally in Force to Build Hamer Free Food Program

By Ryan S. ● Mutual Aid & Community Programs ● September 14, 2025

In the wake of Sun Fresh’s closure and the deepening food apartheid along Kansas City’s Prospect corridor, the Black community responded with power. The Hamer Free Food Program—named for revolutionary freedom fighter Fannie Lou Hamer—has officially launched, with more than 60 volunteers joining Farm Days to grow, harvest, and deliver free produce directly from Black farms to Black families.

KC’S BLACK FARMS UNITE: Hamer Free Food Program Launches Amid Growing Food Apartheid

By KC Defender Staff ● Mutual Aid & Community Programs ● August 19, 2025

The KC Defender, KC Black Urban Growers, Ivanhoe Neighborhood Association, and every Black farm in the KC metro are launching the Hamer Free Food Program. Free CSA boxes from Black farms will reach elders and families near 31st and Prospect after Sun Fresh’s closure. Volunteer, donate, or partner to scale it.

TOWN HALL: Kansas City’s Crisis of Black Food, Land & Survival — And How We Fight Back

By KC Defender Staff ● Agriculture ● March 20, 2025

Kansas City’s Black farmers and urban growers are leading the fight for food sovereignty. Join The KC Defender and The Kansas City Call for an urgent Town Hall to strategize, organize, and take action.

Urbavore’s “Save The Farm” Campaign was Nothing More Than Performative Activism

By Lynnie Holl ● Agriculture ● March 3, 2025

For nearly two years, Urbavore’s pursued control over land in a historically Black neighborhood but their self-serving and manipulative tactics contribute to a larger conversation about race, power dynamics, and urban agriculture in Kansas City.