How Black Women Used Covert Bake Sales To Fight Segregation
After the killing of George Floyd by police, celebrated Afro-Dominican pastry chef Paola Velez and her fellow culinary masterminds launched Bakers Against Racism, a campaign to fight systemic racism by baking. Yara catches up with Paola to make peach cobbler and learn the story of Georgia Gilmore, the O.G. Baker Against Racism, who sold baked goods to fund the historic Montgomery Bus Boycotts during the civil rights movement.