McDonald's are making small improvements to our classic burgers, searing out 100%

British beef patties, so they're even juicier.

And we're serving them hotter for meltier cheese, all in new toast of your

buns. The classics, now a little more mmm comparison with

prior classic burgers served after 11 a.m. subject to availability. Assessing this delicious soul food staple truly requires you to get to the bottom of things,

specifically a well-flavored pot of mustard, collard, or turn of grains.

And though this delicacy has humble roots, it holds a powerful lesson on our Blacknessy. This is two minute

black history, what you didn't learn in school. Pot liquor. The broth left after cooking a pot of greens is deeply connected to blackness.

Our ancestors kept pot liquor after preparing meals for their enslavers who considered

it something to be thrown away.

We used the superfood to sustain our bodies and serve as the basis for a

host of other sauces, soups, and meals. The same pot liquor that kept our

ancestors alive under brutal subhuman conditions. The same one that exists

under brutal subhuman conditions is the same one that exists

anywhere our people gather to eat today.

Pot liquor is packed with iron and vitamins AC and K, enslaved people used it to cure illnesses and to fortify their spirits.

We strengthen our spirits when we radically reimagine our world the same way pot liquor was extended outside kitchens

Whether we add cornbread black-eye peas or meat

Pot liquor is made better when we add our own twist.

Sharing our experiences in community with each other proves the power of our stories to make change. Pot liquor has always been underestimated, but it is a powerhouse. It's not the

pot liquor itself that has made it a black cultural staple is how we have

nurtured recreated and made it our own. The truth is when we lean into our own

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