Source: INDY WEEK, 3/8/17

Kamal Bell remembers what it’s like to grow up in a food desert in Durham. In the nineties, he lived on the northeast side with his parents and older brother, in a mostly black neighborhood near Southern High School. He remembers after-school car rides to Whole Foods, around the corner from Immaculata Catholic School, where he was a student. Bell’s father, an herbalist, frequently made the twenty-minute trip from their house for fresh herbs.

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