New Generation of Black-Led Co-ops Want to End Food Insecurity
by Nigel Roberts from on (#4WT9V)
"A lot of the neighborhoods in West Oakland had 20 to 30 liquor stores and an assortment of fast-food restaurants but no full-size grocery stores," Jeneba Kilgore, a worker-owner at Mandela Grocery Cooperative recalled about her hometown 10 years ago. "You could barely find the stuff to make a salad within walking"