Tag: food deserts
Live HealthSmart Alabama celebrates new sidewalks, other upgrades in Kingston
Jessica Snyder
UAB News
Live HealthSmart Alabama, a University of Alabama at Birmingham initiative, celebrated phase one improvements in the Kingston community last week at Stockham Park.
These improvements...
Fed Up: Neighborhood Leaders Demand Grocers With Healthy Food Options
By Erica Wright
The Birmingham Times
Reshonda McNeal, president of the Killough Springs Neighborhood Association in East Birmingham, has lived in her community for more than...
What City Has in Store for Nearly 150,000 Residents Living in...
By Ameera Steward and Erica Wright
The Birmingham Times
Nearly 150,000 Birmingham residents live in food deserts—and they’re fed up.
Wiley Short, president of the Spring Lake...
Harvest Market’s ‘critical’ role in Eastern Birmingham
By Je’Don Holloway Talley
For the Birmingham Times
Local grocer Jeff Gentry uses one word when asked the importance of providing healthy food options: “Critical.”
Gentry is...
