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Empowerment Experiment Shines Light on Black Business Blight

Like many other blacks in Illinois who live in areas where mainstream grocery stores are absent or distant, Maggie Anderson travels quite a distance to find a grocery store that sells fresh food. The difference is Anderson doesn’t live in a food desert. She travels 14 miles into Chicago’s inner city to Farmers Best Market because it is black-owned.

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