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Celebrating Black Vegan Voices: Add these Videos to Your Watch List

Celebrating Black Vegan Voices: Add these Videos to Your Watch List

Black Vegan Leaders

Black vegan voices bring unique perspectives and contributions to the vegan movement. Here’s a roundup of videos highlighting the work of key Black changemakers.

Los Angeles, February 27th, 2024 — What does it mean to be Black and vegan in America? Meet some icons who are inspiring change on many fronts.

Slutty Vegan

Homegrown in Atlanta, Slutty Vegan is growing fast, and for good reason. It’s crazy-good. People just can’t get enough of founder Pinky Cole’s inspired vegan comfort food. That’s why it’s now, reportedly, a 100-million dollar company. Watch this interview and learn more about how this scrappy entrepreneur is “walking in her purpose” — and enjoying every minute of it. Oh, and be sure to check out her book “Eat Plants, Bitch” for 90+ delicious, guilt-free, plant-based recipes that you can savor from the comfort of your own home.

The Invisible Vegan

This fascinating, fast-paced, 90-minute independent film sheds light on the problem of poor dietary habits often found in the African-American community. You’ll  meet Jasmine Leyva, a 30-year-old Black actress and filmmaker who takes us on her journey away from her family’s unhealthy meat-laden diet to a whole food, plant-based lifestyle, with all the health benefits it brings.

10 Million Black Vegan Women

Vegan trailblazer Tracye McQuirter shares the exciting details of a new program she hopes will inspire 10 million Black women to turn vegan.

VeganSoulicious 

Charlise Rookwood is a British-born culinary artist with Jamaican and Mauritian heritage. She worked in the music industry for more than 25 years before becoming a full-time vegan chef, caterer and food vlogger. Watch her whip up tasty and healthy vegan fare that’s simple yet satisfying.

TOUR NYC’s Plant Based World Expo!

NYC’s Plant Based World Expo is a treat for all the senses. In this video, Charlise Rookwood takes you along a journey that explores plant-based products, from “Shicken” to chips.

Genesis Butler: Marvel Hero for Animals

Genesis Butler is on a mission to save animals and the planet. This Gen Z activist became one of the youngest people to ever give a TEDx talk. She’s also been chosen as a Marvel Hero Kid, which is a tribute to her animal rights activism. Here, she documents her experience attending a pig vigil with actress Mena Suvari and confronts the painful reality of animal slaughter.

This Vegan Is Ripped

Veganism and strength can go hand in hand. Meet Torre Washington. This vegan is a 7-time bodybuilding champion, International Federation of Bodybuilding and Fitness Pro, coach, and trainer who’s living proof that eating plant-based can produce amazing results.

Plant-Based in the ‘Burbs

Plant-Based in the Burbs’ Sherri Johnson knows how to serve up a plant-based version of the comfort food that delivers on flavor without harming animals or the planet. Here’s Sherri making fried “chick-un.”

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Gwenna Hunter: Uniting Against Injustice

It all began with a dream — literally. This vision shifted and shaped Gwenna Hunter’s reality and how she views animals. Hunter is the founder of Vegans of Los Angeles Food Bank, the first Vegan Food Bank in LA. She also founded Vegans for Black Lives Matter. Here, she explains how intersectionality should inform the movement.

Highway to Health – Touring Brazil

Famed Sepultura rocker Derrick Green gives us a vegan tour of Sao Paulo. The city is a paradise for fruit lovers and its plant-based scene is out of this world. This episode is like a feast for the eyes.

Tabitha Brown & Kale My Name

Follow Tik Tok star, Tabitha Brown’s love affair with Nemanja Golubovic’s hit Chicago restaurant, Kale My Name.

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