by Cassandra West
June 22, 2011
Community
Share In urban communities known as “food deserts,” fresh, healthy produce is often nowhere to be found. Processed meats, sodas and chips, well, those are available in abundance. To improve nutrition and curb digesting too many empty calories, residents in food deserts must have access to more fruits and vegetables. Now, there’s an option. Fresh [...]
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by Editor
May 23, 2010
Community
Share COMMENTARY By Susan Richardson As Nicholas Lemann explains in The Promised Land, the advent of the mechanical cotton picker in the 1940s displaced black sharecroppers, adding to the Great Migration of African-Americans from the South to the North. Technological changes have always had an economic, social and racial impact. Today, as we face another economic shift – [...]
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