‘Fertile Ground’ Explores How Jackson, Mississippi, Is Charting a Better Food Future
By Nadra Nittle, Civil Eats Fertile Ground, which was funded in part by a grant from the Bloomberg Foundation, shows how historic redlining—a practice in which banks prevented people of color from buying mortgages in white neighborhoods—resulted in the mostly Black and impoverished neighborhood of South Jackson having few grocery stores but several convenience stores with […]
