Vegans of Color

Lemel Durrah is a plant-based pioneer, vegan soul food chef, and the owner of Compton Vegan. Durrah left his corporate job to become a health advocate and launch a plant-based soul food business to bring more healthful options to an overlooked community...

Today, September 14th is Support Latino Business day! Mayors across the country including in Austin, Boston, Charlotte, Dallas, Denver, District of Columbia, El Paso, Houston, Lawrence, Los Angeles, McAllen, Oakland, Orlando, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Francisco have issued city proclamations in observance of the special day and are urging communities to support local Latinx businesses... Read Mor

Some of our favorite plant-based food companies, big and small, have stepped up amid the coronavirus outbreak to help feed millions of food-insecure among them. Among one of the key players stepping up the plate? Impossible Foods, who partnered with Colin Kaepernick’s civil rights initiative Know Your Rights Camp last month...

When a famous rapper loses a leg to diabetes there is little to do but offer sympathy and give to the GoFundMe page set up for his treatment and follow up care. Today, as we listened to The Beet's Creative AdvisorJermaine Dupri being interviewed for HipHopDX, we learned that Andre "Doctor Dre" Brown, most known for having starred in the MTV show Yo...

Hey, Cincy friends, do we have some news for you: Like Mom’s Only Vegan bakery has opened up and the menu offerings are enough to make even the staunchest of pretzel salt aficionados ready to indulge their sweet tooth. The Black family-owned vegan bakery is certainly leaving fans inspired by their driving principles, too...

Vegan? Check. Organic? Check. Totally delicious? You betcha. It’s no easy feat to make icing without butter or cream, let alone one that tastes amazing and has a healthy-ish nutrition profile. But that’s exactly what food gamechanger, Emily D...

Pinky Cole, owner of Atlanta vegan favorite Slutty Vegan, is continuing her staunch community support by giving $10,000 college scholarships as well as jobs to 30 juvenile offenders, offering them a new start. These jobs will be at Slutty Vegan locations at restaurants and food trucks in the metro Atlanta area...

If you live in—or have been to Los Angeles—you know it's heaven for a vegan foodie. There are the usual suspect go-to spots for plant-forward eats, but there are some grade-A dishes lurking around in lesser known veg-friendly hotspots. Say hello to Post & Beam. Op...

Impossible Foods has drafted a big name in Colin Kaepernick, former NFL player and social activist, and partnered with Know Your Rights Camp, Kaepernick's social justice organization. The goal of the partnership is to support food security and social justice, the CEO says...

Whether we’ve been a full-fledged vegan for decades, plant-leaning for years thanks to our vegan college roommate, or newly on the plant-strong bandwagon, we all arrive here for different reasons. Some of us eat vegan for our health, others try a vegan diet for our waistlines, and still others go plant-based to lessen our impact on the environment...