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Rhonda J. Smith

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Janet Martinez and Milagro Fernandez-Rivera. Photo by Nick Hagen.
How Detroit’s public schools are meeting these families’ needs

While a lack of financial resources impacts the Detroit school district’s ability to obtain quality textbooks and teachers, these parents are making it work.  

Jerry Hebron of Oakland Avenue Urban Farm
Planet Detroit and Detour Detroit: How Black farmers began fixing city’s land ownership problem

Providing Black farmers with land security was one of the reasons Jerry Hebron from Oakland Avenue Urban Farm, Tepfirah Rushdan from Keep Growing Detroit, and representatives from the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network (DBCFSN) D-Town Farm launched the GoFundMe campaign.  

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