New Years Traditions 2025: New Years Beans & Black Americans
Wednesday, January 1, 2025
New Years Day means soul food for most African Americans. In particular it means black eyed peas, neckbones and greens (mustard/turnip/collard mix) in mine.
The beans symbolize planting seeds of success to grow in the coming year, greens for health and wealth, and neckbones meaning “making something outta nothing” since these used to be the “throwaway” part of the pig.
Most of us do this every new year and down South, White folks, Hispanic folks, Asian folks, lots of us do it because the Culture spread like that. It’s one of the things l like about living down here: we all have a lot more in common than different.
Please remember this in 2025!
