Federal maps in the 1930s, Wanda Willingham said, “redlined housing markets and said they were too risky for investment … Generations of people were disconnected, disenfranchised, and deprived of family wealth by buying homes.”
The United States Department of Agriculture withdrew two programs totaling $1 billion that allowed food pantries and schools to purchase locally-sourced food, prompting some in The Enterprise coverage area to wonder if local institutions had lost any funding.
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