What Does The Trump Administration’s ‘Milk Bill’ Mean For Black Children?

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When the Trump administration signed the so-called “Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act,” the mainstream media conversation remained narrowly focused on debates over fat content, calories, dairy farmers, and school lunch menus. But for Black people, milk has never been just . . . milk. It has always been bound up with power, race, whose bodies are valued, and whose children are expected to thrive.

To understand why this moment feels so loaded, you have to go all the way back to the plantation.