Tag: USA: Black Neighbors

NOVANEWS By J. Gabriel Ware, YES! Magazine  Help preserve a news source with integrity at its core: Donate to the independent media at Truthout. A decade ago, researchers reported that more than half of Detroit residents live in a food desert -- an area where access to fresh and affordable healthy foods is limited because grocery stores are too far away. Efforts since then to bring more grocery stores -- and food security -- to predominantly Black neighborhoods haven't worked. But that's looking to change. Malik Yakini is executive director of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network, a coalition of people and groups that promotes urban agriculture, co-operative buying, and healthy eating. His organization is helping Black people in the city take matters into their own han...