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‘Gardening While Black’ Lawsuit Reflects History of Food Justice Activism

thenorthstar
Mar 13, 2019
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A Black Detroit resident is suing three white women who allegedly fabricated charges to the police because they didn’t like a community garden being developed across the street. In a lawsuit filed on February 25, 2019, Marc Peeples alleged that he has been subject to "targeted harassment… for more than nine months” by neighbors of Hunt Park who repeated…

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