Robyn Autry is a sociology professor and director of the Center for the Study of Public Life at Wesleyan University. She is the author of “Desegregating the Past: The Public Life of Memory in the U.S. and South Africa.”
A recent announcement that nearly 100 Red Lobster locations are scheduled to close as part of bankruptcy proceedings is likely to hit Black communities differently — and not just because we consume more fish than any other group in the U.S. Bill Darden opened the first Red Lobster restaurant south of Orlando, Florida, in 1968 just a few weeks before Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated.
reported in April that Red Lobster was seeking a buyer as it looked to avoid a bankruptcy filing. Thai Union, the restaurant’s largest investor, is cutting its ties. Many are left wondering how the national seafood chain has come on such hard times. The answer has to do with ongoing executive turnover, mismanagement, bad real estate leasing agreements, and ill-advised promotions like “endless shrimp.
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