46 BLACK OWNED FARMS AND GROCERY STORES TO SUPPORT (Part 1-4)

[Bunchy Carter]

Black Owned farms and grocery stores are closing around this country at an alarming rate. We have to make a better effort to support the remaining few and build new ones. Please check this list for Black Owned farms and grocery stores in your area and start supporting, if you aren’t already. Any Black Owned farms or grocery stores not on the list? Share their info in the comments below and we’ll update the list and let the people know! Share this list with your friends and family! Lets not let anymore of these places go out of business.
SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BLACK FARMERS & GROCERS!

Arizona

Tiger Mountain Foundation
Location: Phoenix, AZ

Website: www.tigermountainfoundation.org

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We don’t just plant fruits and veggies, we cultivate better communities. Our mission is simple: To empower communities to better themselves from within.

In South Phoenix, and other challenged communities where we work, there are high rates of incarceration, poor health choices and a low ranking education system.

So how do we combat these challenges? Asset Based Community Development (ABCD).

That just means we don’t give a hand out, we give the community a hand up.

California

African American Farmers of California demo farm
Location: Fresno, CA

Website: www.aamnivore.com

Facebook

African American Farmers of California was founded in (year) in (location), under the direction of President Will Scott. AAFC aims to support African-American farmers, gardeners, and more through education, resources, and collaboration. Projects, aims, goals, history.

Farms to Grow, Inc.
Location: Oakland, CA

Website: www.farmstogrow.com

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FARMS TO GROW, INC is a 501(c)(3) non profit organization dedicated to working with Black farmers and underserved sustainable farmers around the country. Farms To Grow, Inc. is committed to sustainable farming and innovative agriculture practices which preserve the cultural and biological diversity, the agroecological balance of the local environment.

Farms To Grow, Inc. aims to increase the capacity of underserved farmers to keep their farm operations and establish farming as a viable career for future generations. Underserved farmers may include Native American, Hispanic, other minority groups, women, the physically challenged and limited access organic farmers. (more info)

People’s Grocery
Location: Oakland, CA

Website: www.peoplesgrocery.org

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People’s Grocery is a community-based organization in West Oakland that develops creative solutions to the health problems in our community that stem from a lack of access to and knowledge about healthy, fresh foods.

City Slicker Farms
Location: Oakland, CA

Website: www.cityslickerfarms.org

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The mission of City Slicker Farms is to empower West Oakland community members to meet the immediate and basic need for healthy fresh food, free of chemicals, for themselves and their families by creating high-yield urban farms and backyard gardens.


Rkelleyfarms
Location: Sacramento, CA

Website: www.rkelleyfarms.com

For over 45 years, Ron Kelley has had a finger in farming. He’s has worked as an agricultural production consultant, which is just a fancy term for plant doctor for farmers. What started out as a hobby a few years ago has now turned into a 25-acre U-pick farm called R. Kelley Farms.
“We grow black-eyed peas, purple hull peas, crowder peas, spreckled butterbeans and also green beans and another variety called cranberry peas, and much more” Ron said.

Scott Family Farms
Location: Fresno, CA

Website: www.scottfamilyfarms.net

Scott Family Farms is a family run organic produce distributor. Based in Fresno California, Scott Family Farms is a 2nd and 3rd generation family run farm. The farm is operated by Will Scott Jr. and his family, and like many of the Scotts who came before him, Will got his start working in the fields from an early age. Will Scott Jr. is a California transplant, whose family moved to California from Oklahoma in 1952, when Scott was a teenager.(more info)

Rancho de Rodney
Location: Fresno, CA

Website: www.localharvest.org/rancho-de-rodney-M65467

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Rancho de Rodney is a disabled veteran business enterprise, growing herbs, vegetables, and fruits year round, certified organic by CCOF since 7/2014.

Rancho de Rodney is run by Rodney Wells and his wife Sherril. Rodney spent 30 years on active duty with the US Navy, 15 of those on submarines, retiring as Command Master Chief/Chief of the Boat. A Kansas native who grew up in Compton, California, Rodney graduated magna cum laude with an A.S. in mechanized agriculture from Reedley College. Sherril is also a Kansas native, and an adventurous cook. (more info)

Simply Wholesome
Location: Los Angeles, CA

Website: www.simplywholesome.com

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Simply Wholesome is dedicated to providing the proper resources to living a healthy lifestyle. We believe in promoting and celebrating our cultural diversity, combined with exceptional customer service in a warm and comfortable setting.

Our motto focuses on “keeping you looking good and feeling good.” Simply Wholesome commits to serving you best. We believe that our business is the

(more info)

Afrikatown Community Garden
Location: Oakland, CA

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An urban haven in West Oakland, Afrika Town at Qilombo empowers community members via food sustainability, justice, self-defense training and self-care.

Phat Beets Produce
Location: Oakland, CA

Website: www.phatbeetsproduce.org

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Phat Beets Produce is a food justice collective. The collective was started in North Oakland in 2007 as a guerrilla produce stand in a North Oakland park. We now support two certified, clinic-based farmer’s markets, one youth-led school farm stand and community nutrition hub, and a youth market garden in partnership with a local hospital obesity prevention program. As a collective, we strive to support social businesses, small-scale farmers, and farmers of color.

Sola Food Co-op
Location: Los Angeles, CA

Website: www.solafoodcoop.com

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The SoLA Food Co-op is in the beginning phases of forming itself into a viable cooperatively organized business. It’s goal is to create a source for natural, organic, non-GMO food in South Los Angeles.

As a co-op, we are much more than just another natural foods store—we’re actually owned by our local community. Unlike the national chain stores, we exist to serve you, our owners—not a distant corporate board.


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[Bunchy Carter]

46 BLACK FARMS AND GROCERY STORES TO SUPPORT (Part 2)

Georgia

Patchwork City Farms
Location: Atlanta, GA

Website: Patchwork City Farms

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Patchwork City Farms (PCF) is a family owned urban farm located in the South West of Atlanta in the Historic West End Neighborhood. Patchwork City Farm’s (PCF) mission is to work with local landholders, public and private, to create a sustainable, naturally grown local food system. Our farm plots are Certified Naturally Grown and we are committed to growing produce that is safe and nutritious. We do not use unsafe chemical fertilizers, pesticides or herbicides. We love nature and enjoy growing fresh vegetables for our community. That is why we are dedicated to practicing sustainable agriculture. Currently, we grow vegetables, herbs and flowers. Our seasonal veggies are sold through Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program and local farmers markets. With your support, we can continue to grow. We welcome you to join our family

Swanson Family Farm
Location: Hampton, GA

Website: www.swansonfamilyfarmllc.com

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We try our best to let animals live as God designed them. Our cows eat a salad of grasses, our chickens eat bugs, lizards and grass, our goats roam the property eating weeds. Our hogs are raised on pasture and in the woods. We partner with farmers that believe in and raise their animals in the same fashion.

Southeastern African-American Farmers Organic Network
Location: Atlanta, GA

Website: www.saafon.org

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On July 6, 2006 farmers representing 15 African American farmers from Georgia, South Carolina, and Alabama gathered in Savannah, Georgia for an intensive three-day organic certification workshop. The workshop was a collaborative effort spearheaded by Cynthia Hayes and Dr. Owusu Bandele, professor at the Southern University Agricultural Center. Both shared a strong commitment to increase the number of certified organic African American farmers in the South. (more info)

Burnell Farms
Location: Royston, GA

Website: www.burnellfarms.com

Burnell Farms is located in Hart County, Royston, Georgia, Tammy Jo and Bill Burnell relocated to Georgia, after they lost their home and all of their possessions in the Cedar Rapids, Iowa flood of 2008.

“We had always dreamed of farming someday, and it seemed like no better time as we literally had nothing to lose.”

“We started out with just $48 in seeds and a little over $1,000 in cash and set off for Georgia. We had located property online through Georgia Organics another organization that has been a huge asset to Burnell Farms. We were so excited to have the opportunity to rebuild our lives.

(more info)

The Metro Atlanta Urban Farm
Location: Royston, GA

Website: www.themetroatlantaurbanfarm.com

The Mission of The Metro Atlanta Urban Farm is to reduce barriers to Metro Atlanta healthy living in urban communities by encouraging, promoting and supporting health education and sustainable high-quality low-cost agricultural production through gardening and farming training. (more info)


Truly Living Well Center for Natural Urban Ag
Location: East Point, Atlanta, & Fayetteville, GA

Website: www.trulylivingwell.com/contact/

Truly Living Well grows better communities by connecting people with the land through education, training, and demonstration of economic success in natural urban agriculture. TLW continues to be a nationally recognized leader in natural urban agriculture. We demonstrate sustainable and economically viable solutions for helping people to eat and live better. (more info)




Illinois

Your Bountiful Harvest Family Farm
Location: Chicago, IL

Website: www.yourbountifulharvest.wix.com

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Your Bountiful Harvest began with a mission to teach people how to feed themselves. We do this by providing the necessary tools (seedlings), skills (consultation) and education (hands-on farmer training) to become successful at gardening and farming. We understand that you can’t learn everything overnight but we can point you in the right direction. (more info)

Growing Power
Location: Chicago, IL

Website: www.growingpower.org

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Growing Power is a national nonprofit organization and land trust supporting people from diverse backgrounds, and the environments in which they live, by helping to provide equal access to healthy, high-quality, safe and affordable food for people.

Louisiana

Circle Foods
Location: New Orleans, LA

Website: www.circlefoodsnola.com

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Incorporated in 1938, we’ve operated as the first African-American owned full service grocery store in New Orleans for 77 years. Affectionately known as “Circle” to our area residents, we’ve welcomed generations of customers as community hub in New Orleans – providing groceries, prepared food, and services such as a pharmacy, a doctor, a dentist, a chiropractor, check cashing and banking, and a place to buy school uniforms. (more info)

Save-A-Lot Store 45063
Location: Baton Rouge, LA

The store’s owner, Tyrone Legette is a former NFL corner back who used to play for the New Orleans Saints. The store is located in the Brookwood Village Shopping Center. at 12250 Plank Rd. in what is known as the Brownsfield area of North Baton Rouge Louisiana. (more info)

 

[Bunchy Carter]

46 BLACK OWNED FARMS AND GROCERY STORES TO SUPPORT (Part 3)

Maryland

Tha Flower Factory
Location: Baltimore, MD

Website: www.thaflowerfactory.com

Tha Flower Factory is a flower farm located in Baltimore City dedicated to growing high quality cut flowers and herbs.

Five Seeds Farmshttp://www.fiveseedsfarm.com/
Location: Baltimore, MD

Website: www.fiveseedsfarm.com

Five Seeds Farm is a family-owned and operated – husband, wife and five children. The farm began in the city in the spring of 2008, in the Belair-Edison neighborhood in our backyard, a City Farms plot and six vacant lots across the street from our house. We quickly expanded to other vacant lots and private yards across the city. From community gardening, to neighborhood farm stands to community-supported urban agriculture to market and restaurant sales, we proudly grow food for children and community members. We believe in sustainably-grown produce free of synthetic pesticides, herbicides, fungicides and fertilizers. We are a transitional farm seeking organic certification in the 2015 season. We are reviving the idea that farming is essential, artistic and exciting. We champion the idea that true food security is achieved when you control your own food.

Michigan

D-TownFarm
Location: Detroit, MI

Website: www.d-townfarm.com

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D-Town Farm is a seven acre organic farm in Detroit’s Rouge Park. We grow more than 30 different fruits, vegetables and herbs that are sold at farmers markets and to wholesale customers. The farm features four hoop houses for extended-season growing, bee-keeping, large-scale composting, farm tours and an annual harvest festival.

Missouri

Leon’s Thriftway
Location: Kansas City, MO

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Leon Stapleton owns a Thriftway supermarket franchise located at 4400 East 39th. Street in Kansas City, Missouri. Mr. Stapleton is a spritely, 90-years young, and shows up to work at his store everyday. Leon Stapleton purchased his franchise in 1968, after it was destroyed by a Molotov cocktail that was thrown inside during the riots that followed the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King. Prior to owning his own franchise, Mr. Stapleton worked at a Safeway supermarket, where he was the first Black person to be hired by a franchise grocer. His hiring made it possible for other Black people to be hired by other major chain stores in the Kansas City area, such as Kroger’s, A&P, and Milgram stores. (more info)

Nebraska

Daddy’s Neighborhood Fresh Market
Location: Omaha, NE (4811 NW Radial Hwy)

Website: www.dnfmarket.weebly.com

Facebook

The idea that the Historic Benson area needed a grocery store to call its own is long overdue. The need for a grocery store where healthy options are offered at a reasonable price is what Daddy’s Neighborhood Fresh Market has. In helping close and solve the food desert in the Benson area, we want to provide our community better food options from local farmers that will enable the community to live healthier lives while supporting the local farm efforts in Nebraska and Iowa. It truly is a win-win situation!




New York

BLK ProjeK
Location: Bronx, NY

Website: www.theblkprojek.org

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The BLK Projek was created in 2009 when Bronx activist and mother, Tanya Fields wanted to take a more proactive approach in her quest for social justice and inclusive economic development. Having a child suffering from food allergies, experiencing increased weight gain, lacking access to quality, affordable food, a significant amount of undeveloped lots and her communities close proximity to the Hunts Point Food Distribution center, she recognized that the Bronx could have a foothold in creating an alternative, more inclusive food system and harness that power as an economic development tool.

East New York Farms
Location: Brooklyn, NY

Website: www.eastnewyorkfarms.org

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The mission of the East New York Farms Project is to organize youth and adults to address food justice in our community by promoting local sustainable agriculture and community-led economic development. East New York Farms! is a project of the United Community Centers in partnership with local residents.

Brooklyn Rescue Mission Urban Harvest
Location: Brooklyn, NY

Website: www.brmuhc.org

Facebook

Brooklyn Rescue Mission was founded in 2002 by a group of clergy and community workers with a vision to service the hungry, hurting and homeless people of Central Brooklyn with healthy fresh food and clean warm clothing. The mission’s founders helped many poor working families, predominately headed by low wage earners, by providing food outreach and clothing assistance. Brooklyn Rescue Mission, Inc. was successfully formed and now assists families living in a community where many of residents are one paycheck away from homelessness.

Hattie Carthan Community Garden Markets
Location: Brooklyn, NY

Website: www.hattiecarthancommunitymarket.com

Facebook

In 2009 community advocate Yonnette Fleming led gardeners to revitalize and reclaim an abandoned land parcel which was used to dump toxic materials for over twenty years. In a matter of years, the lot adjacent to the Hattie Carthan Community Garden was to become the Community Market. Thousands of volunteer hours helped us to convert that blighted property into a thriving farmers market which increases the neighborhood’s limited access to fresh food and thus our overall community health.

Black Urban Growers
Location: New York

Website: www.blackurbangrowers.org

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Black Urban Growers (BUGS) is an organization of volunteers committed to building networks and community support for growers in both urban and rural settings. Through education and advocacy around food and farm issues, we nurture collective black leadership to ensure we have a seat at the table.

Soul Fire Farm
Location: New York

Website: www.soulfirefarm.com

Facebook

Soul Fire Farm is a family farm committed to the dismantling of oppressive structures that misguide our food system. Soul Fire Farm is a Certified Naturally Grown family farm, community resource, and vessel for education. We raise life-giving food and act in solidarity with people marginalized by food apartheid. With deep reverence for the land and wisdom of our ancestors, we work to reclaim our collective right to belong to the earth and to have agency in the food system. We bring diverse communities together on this healing land to share skills on sustainable agriculture, cooking, and natural building, and contribute to the movements for food sovereignty and community self-determination.

 

[BlackMajik]

 

[Bunchy Carter]

46 BLACK OWNED FARMS AND GROCERY STORES TO SUPPORT (Part 4)

North Carolina

Warnersville Community Garden
Location: Greensboro, NC

Website: www.renaissancecoop.com

Facebook

The Community Garden is located at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, 1100 Curtis Street, Greensboro NC 27406 in the Warnersville community. Although on church property, this is not exclusively a church project – this is a community project – ownership and help from the community is welcomed and needed. To increase the availability and convenience of fresh, healthy foods and activities in the Warnersville Community, decreasing obesity and disease. (more info)

Renaissance Community Co-op
Location: Greensboro, NC

Facebook

Renaissance Community Co-op is a group of Northeast Greensboro residents and friends who have outlined a plan with the guidance of F4DC to open a cooperative grocery store in the old Bessemer Center. The vision is to create a community-driven full scale grocery store that meets the needs of the community.

Healing Springs Farmacy
Location: Greensboro, NC

Website: www.healingspringsfarm.wix.com/heal

Facebook

We are a new farm dedicated to producing foods and classes that can enrich the life of people. We focus on essential oils, herbs, fruits, and vegetables. We also focus on natural products for the home, skin, hair, and body. Our goal is to provide natural and sustainable products and services that are healthy and beneficial.

Ohio

Vineyards and BioCellar of Château Hough
Location: Cleveland, Oh

Website: www.neighborhoodsolutionsinc.com

Facebook

The vineyard is comprised of 294 vines, set in 14 rows, 21 plants per row; half Frontenac, half Traminette, both cold-hardy varieties of winemaking grapes. The first harvest in 2013 produced a 2nd place award winning Triminette at the 2014 Geagua County Fair.

The master plan is to establish enough vineyards in Cleveland so that the ultimate goal of building an inner-city winery becomes a reality. However, even if the winery never comes to pass, the effort of rebuilding the community, and the new friends made in the process, has made the project very worthwhile. (more info)

Rid-All Green Partnership
Location: Cleveland, Oh

Website: www.greennghetto.org

Facebook

Our mission is to transform communities, starting with 3 acres in Cleveland’s Kinsman Neighborhood, part of what’s known as the Forgotten Triangle.

We’ve reclaimed the land for growing fruits and vegetables, farming fish, creating soil from what others throw away and more. We’ve constructed two green houses, four hoop houses, a tepee, are adding an edible trail and a pond to add to our fish farming. (more info)

Pennsylvania

Mill Creek Farm
Location: Philadelphia, PA

Website: www.millcreekurbanfarm.org

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Mill Creek Farm is an educational urban farm in West Philadelphia that is dedicated to improving local access to fresh produce, building a healthy community and environment, and promoting a just and sustainable food system.

Founded in 2005, Mill Creek Farm cultivates and distributes fresh produce, hosts farm-based learning programs for people of all ages, and demonstrates ecological technologies and creative resource use to provide for basic needs.

In March of 2016 Mill Creek Farm kicks off its 11th growing season. Volunteers are welcome to drop in and lend a hand every Tuesday and Thursday between 10 am- 12 pm and everyone is welcome to come in and visit when the farm is open.

Mill Creek Farm is located at 49th and Brown Streets in West Philadelphia.

The Philadelphia Urban Creators
Location: Philadelphia, PA

Website: www.phillyurbancreators.org

Facebook

The Urban Creators was founded in North Central Philadelphia 2010 by a diverse group of young people, unified by a vision to organize across socially-constructed barriers in order to harvest people-power, economic resilience, and food justice in our neglected communities. We spent our first year organizing door to door in our neighborhood to gauge the interest and ideas shared by community members and stakeholders, and designing our theory of change. We spent our second year clearing away debris from a 2 acre plot of vacant land on the corner of 11th & Dakota street, and planting the first seeds of our movement to remediate the polluted soils of injustice in North Philly. Our third year saw the transformation this land into LIFE DO GROW; our urban farm, Community Resource and Innovation center, and our home.

Frankstown Rd. Giant Eagle
Location: Pittsburgh, PA (9001 Frankstown Road)

Website: www.gianteagle.com/Stores/Store/?storeId=0697

Debbie Hickman is the independent owner of Giant Eagle Store #697 on Frankstown Avenue in the East Hills neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Debbie grew up nearby in the Larimer Avenue section where she developed her business acumen early on. As the third of six children, she had many odd jobs, shoveling snow during winter and selling candy and flower seeds during fall and spring. (more info)

Tennessee

Maxwell Brothers Produce
Location: Nashville, TN (4606 Nolensville Pike)

Washington, DC

Good Sense Farm
Location: Washington, DC

Website: www.goodsensefarm.com

Facebook

Good Sense Farm (est. 2013) provides local delicacies and an empowering learning environment for urban foodies from all walks of life. Good Sense Farm was created to fill a need for creative commercial food enterprises in the city. We grow gourmet mushrooms and raise healthy bee colonies that produce the finest local honey and hive products. As we are able, we offer tours, workshops, consulting and long-term learning opportunities from our accessible and inviting locations in Washington, DC. (more info)

Three Part Harmony
Location: Washington, DC

Website: www.threepartharmonyfarm.org

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Three Part Harmony Farm grows vegetables, flowers, herbs and fruit on a two acre plot in DC. We are using sustainable practices, without chemical pesticides or herbicides. Grow with us.

We offer a community-supported agriculture program, a locally based economic model of agriculture and food distribution. It’s a relationship between the community and the farmer. Members pay in advance to pick up a share of the harvest throughout the growing season. Selling our produce before the season allows us to focus on the actual farm work. You gain the peace of mind that comes from knowing how and where your food is grown. (more info)

 

[Treblemaka]

This is what fuk I'm talking about. This is what the Coli could be. A place where black people can network, inform, an support each other.



Dap, rep, 5 star, sticky.

 

[Neuromancer]

Subs. Dap. Rep.

 

[CASHAPP]

Story is WAYYYY too positive for my liking.

 

[Taharqa]

I've been looking for black groceries stores for awhile now. I wanted to go to an old groceries stores that use to be black owned when I was a kid and they're owned by white people now. Two of the biggest black owned grocery stores in a black area of the city owned by whites. Pretty frustrating if you ask me.

If any of ya'll live in oklahoma and know of one let me know

 

[Bunchy Carter]

I've been looking for black groceries stores for awhile now. I wanted to go to an old groceries stores that use to be black owned when I was a kid and they're owned by white people now. Two of the biggest black owned grocery stores in a black area of the city owned by whites. Pretty frustrating if you ask me.

If any of ya'll live in oklahoma and know of one let me know

There use to be a lot of black owned grocery stores in the south, but a lot of the black owned businesses were pushed out by fukk up local white supremacist laws.

Also with integration, black folks stop supporting black owned grocery stores.

 

[jerniebert]

Nice there is one right around the corner from my Dad's House and it's certified organic. Going to have to check that out.

 

[XII]

@KOohbt we never got that thread on black farming

 

[GoPro]

Good shyt. Wish I had a popular social media acct. This is what all those black celebs and IG thots should be promoting instead of those bullshyt ass lean tummy pills

 

[Taharqa]

There use to be a lot of black owned grocery stores in the south, but a lot of the black owned businesses were pushed out by fukk up local white supremacist laws.

Also with integration, black folks stop supporting black owned grocery stores.

Yea I know that happens but the two stores that were there always had customers. They we're packed with customers all the damn time and they still sold. One of the stores sold out to a big grocery store company here and the other sold out to a white redneck.

 

[...o3]

wtf happened to reps? i want to give them out.....and i want to give them NOW!!!