Breaking the Drought in Food Deserts [psmag.com]

Alicia Doktor 1/10/184:00 AM

Pittsburgh's Hill District hasn't had a full-service grocery store in 30 years.

Nestled in the heart of the city, the Hill was once a vital center of jazz, black culture, and civic life, earning it the nickname "Little Harlem." The neighborhood had its own newspaper and radio station. Thoroughfares were lined with black-owned clubs, restaurants, and shops. Dizzy Gillespie sat in at the Crawford. Satchel Paige played at Greenlee Field. Harlem Renaissance poet Claude McKay called it "the crossroads of the world."

All that changed in the 1950s, when urban "renewal" projects displaced thousands of residents and hundreds of businesses. Homes were razed to the ground and never rebuilt. Jazz clubs became parking lots. The wrecking balls left, but the Hill never recovered.

[For more on this story by KEVIN CHARLES FLEMING, go to https://psmag.com/economics/br...ught-in-food-deserts]

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