"From Houston, Texas, and Atlanta, Georgia, to Birmingham, Alabama; Baltimore, Maryland; Nashville, Tennessee, and Jackson, Mississippi, the long, treacherous history of redlining in this country aligns with where food redlining (or food apartheid) is prevalent today—and that is unambiguously state violence.
“Just looking at food alone, hunger, the inability to feed ourselves,” Cooper tells ESSENCE. “That’s violent. To be hungry and malnourished is a very violent phenomenon.
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