Dinner with
Akua Shabaka

I'm from Los Angeles, California. I live in New York City. My family is from the south and the Caribbean islands and what's really important to me is culture, identity, and storytelling amongst black people.

Especially now because I'm living in New York and I just graduated college—coming back here to South Central, it always feels like home. And I think that growing up in South Central, I realize it even more now how much it played a role into my life, like the culture and the different types of people here, the food.