Ice cream is starting new conversations about Black history.For Black History Month, Taharka Brothers Ice Cream in Remington released a new ice cream flavor that’s named after a well-known Baltimore figure who’s helping people learn about Black history.”Especially during Black History Month, we definitely wanted to do something that was impactful, that was fun, that was thrilling, and who doesn’t like ice cream?” said Craig Turner, Taharka’s retail director.The “Dr. Kaye’s Touch of Freedom” ice cream flavor is named after Dr. Kaye Wise Whitehead, and it’s meant to show people what freedom feels like.”On the top is a layer of chocolate, so you can break through the chocolate — like we break through for a resistance — down into the Madagascar vanilla, mixed with deep shards of chocolate chips,” said Wise Whitehead, radio host of “Today with Dr. Kaye” and founding executive director of the Karson Institute for Race, Peace and Social Justice at Loyola University Maryland.This isn’t Wise Whitehead’s first ice cream flavor. Taharka Brothers approached her last year about creating her first ice cream flavor and they came up with a three-layer ice cream, “Dr. Kaye’s Taste of Freedom: Justice you can Savor.””We talked to people about the notion of digging down through the layers, looking for what freedom talked about, what freedom meant and what freedom was at that moment,” Wise Whitehead told WBAL-TV 11 News.From a “Taste of Freedom” to a “Touch of Freedom,” the latest flavor touches on a part of history.”Growing up in Jim Crow South Carolina, my grandmother would always tell me stories about how Black folks could not buy vanilla ice cream,” Wise Whitehead told WBAL-TV 11 News. “It is a form of resistance to intentionally choose vanilla for a ‘Touch of Freedom’ because that was kept from us, and a sign of freedom is to take back things they pulled from us, reclaim them and stand in that space.”Wise Whitehead said she hopes this ice cream isn’t just a sweet treat, but a catalyst for conversation.”Wherever you go and whatever environment, use the ice cream as a great opening piece to talk about Black history, because Black history is American history,” Wise Whitehead told WBAL-TV 11 News.”Dr. Kaye’s Touch of Freedom” is available at Taharka’s scoop shops at R. House, Cross Street Market and Lexington Market, as well as online here.
BALTIMORE —
Ice cream is starting new conversations about Black history.
For Black History Month, Taharka Brothers Ice Cream in Remington released a new ice cream flavor that’s named after a well-known Baltimore figure who’s helping people learn about Black history.
“Especially during Black History Month, we definitely wanted to do something that was impactful, that was fun, that was thrilling, and who doesn’t like ice cream?” said Craig Turner, Taharka’s retail director.
The “Dr. Kaye’s Touch of Freedom” ice cream flavor is named after Dr. Kaye Wise Whitehead, and it’s meant to show people what freedom feels like.
“On the top is a layer of chocolate, so you can break through the chocolate — like we break through for a resistance — down into the Madagascar vanilla, mixed with deep shards of chocolate chips,” said Wise Whitehead, radio host of “Today with Dr. Kaye” and founding executive director of the Karson Institute for Race, Peace and Social Justice at Loyola University Maryland.
This isn’t Wise Whitehead’s first ice cream flavor. Taharka Brothers approached her last year about creating her first ice cream flavor and they came up with a three-layer ice cream, “Dr. Kaye’s Taste of Freedom: Justice you can Savor.”
“We talked to people about the notion of digging down through the layers, looking for what freedom talked about, what freedom meant and what freedom was at that moment,” Wise Whitehead told WBAL-TV 11 News.
From a “Taste of Freedom” to a “Touch of Freedom,” the latest flavor touches on a part of history.
“Growing up in Jim Crow South Carolina, my grandmother would always tell me stories about how Black folks could not buy vanilla ice cream,” Wise Whitehead told WBAL-TV 11 News. “It is a form of resistance to intentionally choose vanilla for a ‘Touch of Freedom’ because that was kept from us, and a sign of freedom is to take back things they pulled from us, reclaim them and stand in that space.”
A sign of freedom is to take back things they pulled from us, reclaim them and stand in that space.
Wise Whitehead said she hopes this ice cream isn’t just a sweet treat, but a catalyst for conversation.
“Wherever you go and whatever environment, use the ice cream as a great opening piece to talk about Black history, because Black history is American history,” Wise Whitehead told WBAL-TV 11 News.
“Dr. Kaye’s Touch of Freedom” is available at Taharka’s scoop shops at R. House, Cross Street Market and Lexington Market, as well as online here.
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