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title: ‘Food’ for Thought
date: 2023-02-03T12:33:00-05:00
author: University of Maryland
canonical_url: "https://terp.umd.edu/food-for-thought-2"
section: Articles
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# ‘Food’ for Thought

*February 3, 2023* — by [Sala Levin ’10](/authors/sala-levin-10)


- *Photos by Theo Coté*

> Performance Piece Asks Tough Questions Via Unexpected Messenger: Puppets

*A video projection shows photos and newspaper clippings of slain Black men — The multimedia piece “Food for the Gods” takes on the emotions surrounding the deaths of Black men in America. A video projection shows photos and newspaper clippings of slain Black men.*

In 2011, Nehprii Amenii was working toward a graduate degree in theater production at Sarah Lawrence College and resolutely avoiding the distressing news of the pending execution of Troy Davis, a Black man convicted of murder in Georgia who’d garnered the support of Amnesty International, the NAACP, Pope Benedict XVI and former President Jimmy Carter.

But one afternoon, running to catch the subway in the heart of Harlem, she happened upon a protest on Davis’ behalf. “I had to go through the process of making myself un-ignorant to what was really going on” in Georgia, she says.


*Emmett Till and Amadou Diallo, represented by puppets, at a dinner party — Emmett Till and Amadou Diallo, represented by puppets, are among those who attend a celestial dinner party.*


*angry mother holds baby — An angry mother tries to teach her child how to survive in a white-dominated world.*




**Issue:** [Winter 2023](https://terp.umd.edu/editions/winter-2023)


**Types:** [Campus Life](https://terp.umd.edu/category/campus-life)