N. Charleston, tri-county leaders explore options to improve food access
VIDEO: N. Charleston, tri-county leaders explore options to improve food access By Paola Tristan Arruda | April 12, 2021 at 9:22 PM EDT - Updated April 12 at 11:32 PM
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - The city of North Charleston and tri-county leaders are looking at ways to improve access to healthy food in areas most needed. For a long time, areas in the city’s South End have been considered “food deserts,” meaning they have limited access to affordable and healthy foods.
The Berkeley Charleston Dorchester Council of Governments received a grant from the National Center for Mobility Management, and they are using it to improve access to food in those areas.
The City of San Diego removed a plaque honoring Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy, from Horton Plaza Park in downtown San Diego on Wednesday, Aug. 16, joining other cities around the country removing statutes and monuments to prominent historic figures of the Civil War era.
A petition, posted on Change.org, asked that the plaque be removed and was directed at San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer, Councilman Chris Ward, and President of the California Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Scarlett Stahl.
“San Diegans, especially our African American and other people of color community (sic), as well as the hundreds of thousands of visitors each year, should not be asked to honor our nation’s racist past, nor support the continued racism and hate we see today around the nation,” the petition read.