{"id":32905,"date":"2023-01-26T16:26:30","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T00:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/?p=30000029539"},"modified":"2023-03-20T00:01:31","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T07:01:31","slug":"how-filthy-rich-banana-pudding-is-working-to-bring-healing-to-the-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/food\/how-filthy-rich-banana-pudding-is-working-to-bring-healing-to-the-community","title":{"rendered":"How Filthy Rich Banana Pudding is working to bring healing to the community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How Filthy Rich Banana Pudding is working to bring healing to the community\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W79RjEpaqRo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>LaTanya Ward is taking the term \u201ccomfort food\u201d literally.\u00a0 Every week, Ward makes hundreds of containers of banana pudding to deliver or to sell at local pop-ups.<\/p>\n<p>It isn\u2019t her love of pudding that inspires her to spend 10 hours making 200 containers of pudding\u2014it\u2019s her love and her desire to comfort the people in her community.<\/p>\n<p>Ward is from the South Central\/Baldwin Hills area. Her father moved to Long Beach, off of Seventh Street and Temple Avenue, when she was young.<\/p>\n<p>Not long after, she realized the environment she grew up in\u2014and the color of her skin\u2014meant she would not receive the same allowances as other children.<\/p>\n<p>Ward says a lot of her Black classmates were funneled into the justice system. \u201cThat is my story as well,\u201d says Ward. Instead of counseling, Ward says she received her first criminal case in school at the age of 12 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, Ward took part in gang life, which earned her a two-year prison sentence for marijuana possession.\u00a0 Once she was released, there were little to no resources at her disposal, and she was expected to fail.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Ward immediately found a job, went back to school, and earned her degree in community planning and economic development. After completing a Skid Row internship working with people experiencing homelessness and those with mental illness, Ward found her passion: changing the lives of former Black gang members.<\/p>\n<p>Ward founded Filthy Rich Banana Pudding in 2014 to fund another project of hers, the G.U.T.T. Healing Circles for the community\u2014the acronym stands for &#8220;gaining unity through transformation,&#8221; and the healing sessions include team building, therapeutic exercises and an ear to listen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to be an inspiration. I want to be known for something good,\u201d says Ward. While she is excited to help the Black Community, her goal is to make sure those she comes in contact with have the tools to help themselves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope to assist people with personally developing,\u201d says Ward. \u201cI believe that they\u2019ll seek and find any other opportunities. I think that the sky is the limit after the elevation of the mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Filthy Rich Banana Pudding is featured in this year&#8217;s Black Restaurant Week which runs through January 29th.\u00a0 To find out more about the event, visit the Black Restaurant Week Instagram page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/blackrestaurantweek\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Filthy Rich Banana is available for delivery and is sold at pop-ups Friday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. To find the next pop-up, follow Filthy Rich Pudding on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/filthyrichbananapudding\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more or to register for the G.U.T.T. 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