E4E was created shortly after George Floyd was murdered last year and gives voice to minority and marginalized groups in Encinitas. Several black wooden panels with the names of people killed during run-ins with police provided a backdrop for the garden that is made up of several garden boxes. A large painted picture of Floyd rests next to them.
“I’m proud of our community,” Woods-Drake said while standing next to the garden dozens of volunteers helped build last month.
Woods-Drake said the Fill-A-Belly community garden is open to everyone who wants to help, and the produce will support other local non-profits like the Oceanside Homeless Resource.
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Mali Woods-Drake and Felicia Booker tend to a new community garden in Encinitas.
With the sun beating at her back, Felicia Booker bent over and tended to a young, humble garden in Carlsbad.
“Oh, my God, this is wonderful,” Booker said with a smile.
Booker represents a group called Black Girls Who Garden, but they aren’t the only ones with their hands in the dirt.
“We have to work together, otherwise we’re going to end up in the same position we’re in now 40 years from now,” said Mali Woods-Drake, president and co-founder of Encinitas4Equality. https://www.instagram.com/p/CRpbnmTDh-0
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Encinitas4Equality to hold virtual concert benefit
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Encinitas4Equality, a grassroots organization that emerged in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death, will host a virtual benefit concert in honor of Black History Month on Feb. 27 at 5:45 p.m.
“This event is kind of the culmination of the last nine months while really taking time to celebrate how far we’ve come but still how much work we have to do,” said Mali Woods-Drake, an Encinitas4Equality co-founder. “For this event specifically, we were very intentional about making sure everyone that we’re partnering with are Black businesses, making sure we’re highlighting these Black businesses.”
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In effort to make Encinitas a more welcoming place for all types of people, the city will form an Equity Committee to offer advice on a wide range of issues, the City Council unanimously decided last week.
“We’re trying to lift up those who have historically been disenfranchised,” Mayor Catherine Blakespear said as she introduced the proposal.
Blakespear, who put together the idea with Councilwoman Kellie Shay Hinze, said Encinitas has some two dozen groups and individuals active in diversity-related issues and the new city-sponsored committee will bring these folks together to offer the city advice on everything from housing to policing concerns.