Dion Johnson On May 25 – the same day George Floyd was killed by a police officer in Minneapolis – a DPS trooper shot 28-year-old Dion Johnson in Phoenix during a DUI arrest. A vigil was held for him outside the Arizona Department of Public Safety and his death was protested across the country as part of the Black Lives Matter movement. Guy Phillips National outlets from CNN to The Washington Post took notice when...
Next week, Hulu is releasing a series hosted by Top Chef’s Padma Lakshmi, about the search for true American food. Taste the Nation follows Lakshmi as she travels across the country to learn about different styles of American cooking, with a focus on immigrant and indigenous cultures and foods. Lakshmi says, in the official trailer, that “everything that the American cuisine is today is because all these different people and different cultures contributed to it.”...
Valley healer Felicia Cocotzin Ruiz carries on the tradition of her curandera great-grandmother with indigenous healing and cooking.