Sunday Surf & Turf Training Grounds

Sunday Surf & Turf Restaurant — the one where patrons get a bib, gloves, and hand wipes for their Cajun crab mess — turns out to be training grounds for restorative justice practitioners.

It's delicious — a training module that is only enhanced by the Black history musical that came right before it.

While it could be considered just an excuse to hang out with a friend, a new lived-experience case study shows the power of theatre and Cajun food to restore justice.

Take Yvette, a cultural auntie who took me out for an impromptu Emancipation Theatre show, and asserts that she will not be donating her time to white colonialism anymore.