Posts tagged food insecurity
Inside Jackson City Limits, Farmers Combat Their Neighbors’ Lack of Fresh Produce
Inside Jackson City Limits, Farmers Combat Their Neighbors’ Lack of Fresh Produce

Mississippians have been going hungry for decades, as Robert F. Kennedy discovered 55 years ago this month.

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Perspective, Story Behind The StoryKatherine MitchellMississippians, Mississippi food, food insecurity, food aid withheld, Kennedy, Freedom Farm Cooperative, Delta, cooperative food system, black residents, black farmers, food deserts, Mississippi Farmers market, Jackson fairgrounds, Wurmworks, Cindy Ayers-Elliot, Food Print Farms, the common table, produce
Going Hungry and Getting Fat During the Pandemic
Going Hungry and Getting Fat During the Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has lefted jagged tears in America’s social fabric, including losses of jobs and health insurance, and the disparities between infection rate, access to health care, and deaths among whites as opposed to those of people of color and poorer communities.

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Perspective, Story Behind The StoryKatherine Mitchellfood insecurity, hunger, hungry Americans, food banks, Stewpot, New York Times, Marion Wright, Robert F. Kennedy, Delta Epiphany, Jackson, Mississippi