is an associate professor of African American studies at the University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign, author of the James Beard Award-nominated book “Food Power Politics” and a Public Voices Fellow ...

Rev. Jesse Jackson believed that Black communities had to control the local economy, demanding that grocers provide adequate produce and meat, supply jobs for Black people, and carry Black products.

Some want to kill the quantum project entirely; others want to be shielded from displacement and environmental harms.