How do you like your pizza? Pepperoni? Extra cheese? In Philadelphia, Muhammad Abdul-Hadi serves pizza with a side of second chances.

Abdul-Hadi, the founder of Down North Pizza, hires only those who have been incarcerated. He will be in Charleston June 11 at the Charleston Wine + Food Test Kitchen to discuss food, activism and collaboration. The discussion is part of the festival’s Summer Sizzle series and will be moderated by local food activist K.J. Kearney, creator of Black Food Fridays, a movement encouraging people to support Black-owned food and beverage businesses.

Abdul-Hadi graduated from Temple University in 2018 with a degree in criminal justice, which he said was interested in because “growing up in Philadelphia, I was surrounded by family members and community members who w

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