From Sit-ins to Soul Food

Sixty years after Greensboro, taking on racism in restaurants

Lisa Rab
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9 min readMar 19, 2019

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Photo: Klaus Vedfelt

When chef Michael Bowling moved to Charlotte, North Carolina, from Washington, D.C. eight years ago, his professional future looked bright. He had cooked dinner at the James Beard House in New York and was starting a gig as executive chef at an upscale Southern restaurant. But after that venture folded in 2012…

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Lisa Rab
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Writer for

Lisa Rab is an investigative journalist whose work has appeared in outlets such as The Washington Post Magazine and Politico Magazine.