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‘A Black Woman Made This Beer’

'A Black Woman Made This Beer' — How Historically Black Colleges and Universities Shaped a Generation of Black Women Brewers

May 11, 2022, by Atinuke Akintola Diver

It was February 2019 when I stepped out of the historic St. Joseph's Performance Hall in Durham, North Carolina to explore the concession stand, only to be met with an unexpected encounter.

I was attending the Hayti Heritage Film Festival, one of the longest-running Black, Southern film festivals in the United States, and a cultural institution unto itself. A modern, meta-maroon space, the event centers work by Black artists, whose work in turn is rooted in the Black and African diasporic experience. It takes its name from Hayti: the historic African-American community that predates the modern city of Durham, North Carolina. It's the kind of event where you can start the day exploring ancestral reverence during "Black Feminist Film School," spend the afternoon line-dancing next to a city councilor or county commissioner, and end the evening rubbing shoulders with Oscar-nominated directors and cinematographers who just happen to be from around the way.

I'd just finished watching a screening of "While I Breathe I Hope," a documentary film that followed CNN political commentator and South Carolina politician Bakari Sellers during his historic 2014 campaign for lieutenant governor, in which he attempted to become the first African-American candidate elected in the state in over a century. After a talkback with the film's producers, I stepped out to the concession area, transformed into a village of Black vendors selling everything from African black soap to African print dresses; waist beads to wire-wrapped rings; centering candles to chakra crystals. I noticed a table with a few bottles of wine displayed in stiletto-shaped holders and wandered over. I'd intended to get a glass of wine, but the server on the other side of the table seemed a lot more excited about the beer.

"A Black woman made this beer," he said.

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‘A Black Woman Made This Beer’

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