

Distiller's Dough: Black people in moonshine
I believe media is bad for intentionally leaving black folks out of barbecue culture and “heritage” but there is something worse. Look no further than a tradition that go lock and step with barbecue, and that is bootlegged liquor culture. As black people we should not think of this activity as totally illegal post emancipation through the civil rights era, because the system was not going to give a black person a license to make liquor and in rare cases to sell liquor, prima