//How Black Organizers in NYC Fed the Occupy City Hall Protests with Restaurant and Homemade Meals

How Black Organizers in NYC Fed the Occupy City Hall Protests with Restaurant and Homemade Meals

For the past two weeks, hundreds of people have camped out in Lower Manhattan’s City Hall Park, demanding that the city cut at least $1 billion from the NYPD’s 2021 budget, in light of the nationwide protests against police violence. The movement started on Tuesday, June 24, with just a few dozen people. Overnight, it grew into a group of a few hundred, who in the subsequent days and weeks were sustained by a tight-knit network of chefs and volunteers