The Kansas City Defender's second Black Feast Week is underway now with nearly 20 participating businesses. After a string of closures hit Black-owned Kansas City restaurants last year, organizers saw a need to help owners with marketing.

Opening Black Feast Week — designed to promote Black-owned restaurants, chefs, and culinary creativity — by feeding 150 single Black mothers for free was an intentional act of community care, said Joshua “JT” Taylor.

“We’ve always tried to prioritize helping people who are most marginalized,” said Taylor, senior content producer and chief administrative officer at The Kansas City Defender , which organizes Black Feast Week Oct. 6–12.

“And the Black woman is probably the most marginalized among us. We try to look out for our people.”

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