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Aaliyah Quinn and Zakariyah Hill, co-founders of The Supply Hive, and Emani DuBoise, who is on the nonprofit s board of directors, pose for a picture at their Celebration of Black Motherhood event in Des Moines Sunday.
A winning raffle number got called out to cheers and applause at Evelyn K. Davis Park in Des Moines Sunday, where winners got to pick out new baby supplies like cribs and bassinets.
The second annual Celebration of Black Motherhood, hosted by local nonprofit The Supply Hive, is an example of one of the many community assistance efforts that racial justice advocates started last spring and summer. The group was also giving out free diapers, children’s clothes, meals from Black-owned food trucks, and offering connections to other community services.
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White Iowans own their homes at nearly three times the rate of Black Iowans, one of the biggest racial homeownership gaps in the country. Nationally, this gap is wider than it was 50 years ago, because discriminatory housing policies and practices of the past and present are still hurting Black families and their ability to build generational wealth.
Bobbretta Brewton remembers when the city of Des Moines bought her family’s house to destroy it.
“I was born and raised here. And when I was 8 years old, our family was impacted by urban renewal,” Brewton said. “And it was a home that my grandmother worked really hard to buy and own, and then share with my father’s family, which included me.”