The WEAA talk show, “Today with Dr. Kaye,” is known for taking on some of today’s most heated issues — Gaza, police accountability, President Trump’s threat to send the National Guard to Baltimore.
“Ice cream takes the temperature down,” its host Kaye Whitehead said Monday, when Taharka Brothers launched a new flavor in her honor. “It’s so stressful now.”
The ice cream is called “Dr. Kaye’s Taste of Freedom.”
Befitting a host who frequently dives into complicated issues of race and justice, the ice cream is multi-layered and intensely flavored: The first layer is dark cocoa ice cream with white chocolate chips, the second French vanilla, and the third Kenyan coffee with brownie pieces.
“It’s about digging through and bringing the community together,” Whitehead said. “It’s about finding the point where we can come together. We can come together over ice cream.”
The flavor was launched — with samples — at a live broadcast of Whitehead’s 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. show from the R. House food hall in Remington, which has a Taharka’s scoop shop. The ice cream will also be sold in pints nationwide, and a portion of the proceeds will benefit Whitehead’s Karson Institute for Race, Peace & Social Justice at Loyola University, where she is a professor of communication and African and African American studies.
“We want to introduce the nation to her flavor, pun intended,” said LaMarr Darnell Shields, a director at Taharka.
Shields said the company has honored other Baltimoreans similarly, from the late rapper Tupac Shakur (Keep Ya Head Up, vanilla with blackberry sauce and oatmeal crisp) to Gov. Wes Moore, whose “We Want Moore” ice cream features vanilla with chocolate fudge and peanut butter cookie swirl.
“This is how we shed light on the changemakers in our communities,” said Taharka co-owner Vinny Green. “We tell a lot of different stories, we do a lot of different flavors.”
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