The only supermarket on the East Side is Tops, where a white gunman killed 10 Black residents in May.
AHRIE / African Heritage Food Co-op“It’s about gainful employment,” Wright, 43, said in October of his future grocery store.
African Heritage Food Co-Op“That’s why I don’t call this a food desert,” Wright said.
One organization, the Buffalo Black Billion, is led by a local pastor, Michael Chapman of St. John and Gethsemane Missionary Baptist churches.
African Heritage Food Co-OpBy providing healthy food, Chapman said he also wants to increase the lifespan of Black residents in the community, for whom health disparities are all too familiar.