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Detroit Entrepreneurs Fight Food Insecurity With Lessons Of The Past

by Brittany Hutson

“Orange Page March 2 2014” by Ryo Takemasa is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

A 1968 survey found that poor inner-city Detroiters struggled to access fresh, reasonably priced food. Those battles persist today. So in one underdeveloped neighborhood, Raphael Wright and Sonya Greene are opening a bodega that sells healthy food.

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