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Black farmers and urban growers promote power and sovereignty at Detroit...
By Kibibi Blount-Dorn Special to The Michigan Citizen In the tiny town of Covert, near the eastern banks of Lake Michigan, Barbara Norman farms 53 acres of blueberries on land her family has owned and...
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Breast cancer study saving Black women
By Zenitha Prince Special to the Trice Edney Newswire from the Afro American Newspaper African American women suffering from breast cancer in the Washington, D.C., area offered some “real talk” about...
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NSJP 2014: Moving beyond solidarity
Living for Change By Tawana Petty Special to the Michigan Citizen I had the honor of speaking to and performing for 500 students, instructors, activists and organizers from around the globe at the 4th...
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A time for change at the Detroit Food Policy Council
By Kibibi Blount-Dorn Special to The Michigan Citizen This past year has been a year of change for the Detroit Food Policy Council. In February, we adopted a strategic plan that outlines our objectives...
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Wayne State University Farmers’ Market closes seventh season
Kami Pothukuchi, Ph.D. Special to The Michigan Citizen On Oct. 29, a typically chilly fall day, the Wayne State University Farmers Market had our season’s last market, 22 weeks after its June start....
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A time for visionary resistance
By Tawana “Honeycomb” Petty Special to The Michigan Citizen Over 50 years ago, ancestor James Boggs wrote “The American Revolution: Pages from a Negro Worker’s Notebook.” In this book, he warned...
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Black farmers and urban gardeners
By Marilyn Barber Special to The Michigan Citizen The Black Farmers and Urban Gardeners Conference was presented by Black Urban Growers, an organization of volunteers committed to building networks...
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NFL players show solidarity with national protests against police killings of...
Blackpressusa.com [caption id="attachment_15672" align="alignleft" width="300"] Detroit Lions' running back Reggie Bush wears "I can't breathe" on his team shirt during pre-game warm-ups, Dec. 7. PHOTO...
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Food is Life: When is less really more?
By Phil Jones Special to The Michigan Citizen As we move forward in this battle for our food, there’s not much more comforting than to know that great food system minds gather together to address food...
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CDC spins the entire food web in Detroit’s North End
By Phreddy Wischusen The Michigan Citizen There used to be a liquor store at the corner of Second and Philadelphia. Now the building is home to over 3,500 tilapia fish and a floating field of basil...
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