This week's episode of the Shelf Life podcast is all about FOOD in the Central District. Through community stories, we'll explore the ways that food has brought neighbors together. Whether we're hearing stories about family gatherings, first jobs, the Promenade Red Apple, or the Black Panther breakfast program - food is the common denominator. Through food, the neighborhood forged community, built an economy, and resisted discrimination.

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Shelf Life uses community stories to amplify, preserve, and learn from the voices, experiences, and histories of Seattle’s Central District neighborhood. For decades, the CD was the only neighborhood where African Americans were allowed to live. Despite all kinds of obstacles, like job discrimination and predatory lending, people in this neighborhood managed to thrive, innovate, and contribute so much to this city. But now, with all the change happening in Seattle, Central District residents - and their businesses and families and community gathering places - are being displaced SO FAST. We hope that neighborhood stories can inform the way we think about community - what it means to have it, and what it means to lose it. And we hope these stories can shift the way we talk about displacement and gentrification and change, in our city, and in cities across the country! .This podcast is brought to you by King County 4Culture. Original score by Bubba Jones.