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Black-owned grocery store hopes to drain the ‘food swamp’ in Detroit’s Jefferson Chalmers

Raphael Wright has long dreamed of bringing something to Jefferson Chalmers that the eastside Detroit neighborhood has been lacking — a grocery store. After six years of crowdfunding, and passing out grocery boxes to fight food insecurity, Wright has finally opened Neighborhood Grocery at 500 Manistique St. It’s reportedly the first Black-owned grocery store in […]

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