Empowerment Experiment Shines Light on Black Business Blight

By Editor published on Friday, March 20, 2009 and is filed under Money. You can follow responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Like many other blacks in Illinois who live in areas where mainstream grocery stores are absent or distant, Maggie Anderson travels quite a distance to find a grocery store that sells fresh food. The difference is Anderson doesn’t live in a food desert. She travels 14 miles into Chicago’s inner city to Farmers Best Market because it is black-owned.

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