About this Event
Join Us for A Slice of Legacy: Bean Pie Competition & Awards Dinner!
Join the Muslim League of Voters and Good Deeds NJ for an evening honoring the pioneers, bakers, distributors, entrepreneurs, families, and cultural preservationists who helped establish the bean pie as an enduring part of African American Muslim culture and community.
Honoring the hands that baked it, the people who carried it, and the legacy that continues.
The Muslim League of Voters and Good Deeds NJ invite you to A Slice of Legacy: Bean Pie Awards Dinner, a special evening celebrating the history, entrepreneurship, families, and community legacy surrounding one of African American Muslim culture's most recognizable foods: the bean pie.
For generations, bean pies have represented more than food. Bakers, distributors, families, entrepreneurs, and community institutions helped build a tradition that traveled from neighborhood to neighborhood and generation to generation.
A Slice of Legacy brings our community together to recognize those pioneers while creating space for today's bakers and entrepreneurs to carry the tradition forward.
The evening will feature:
- Pioneer Awards and community recognition
- Legacy Bean Pie Championship
- People's Choice judging
- Bean pie bakers and vendors
- Dinner
- Community and cultural reflections
- Recognition of the people and families who helped preserve the legacy
- Opportunities to support the work of the Muslim League of Voters and Good Deeds NJ
Dinner is included with paid admission.
Dinner menu: chicken, rice and string beans.
Event venue & nearby stays
1033 S Orange Ave, 1033 South Orange Avenue, Newark, United States
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