Shaming the way Black folks eat won’t get us free – Reckon

Large piece of fat ham hock in black-eyed peas with collard greens and mashed potatoes and a slab of cornbread. (Warren_Price/Getty Images/Canva/Danielle Buckingham)

It was 2014 when I decided I was going to become a vegetarian. I was in my junior year of college, and I was trying to commit to a healthier lifestyle. It wasn’t until two years later that I abandoned that diet for something that felt closer to home. Home, for me, was . . .