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Sunday Q&A: Abeika Alexander, Community Garden Advocate

By Frank Etheridge
In Sunday Q&A
May 21, 2021
6 Min Read
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Why have you taken on growing fresh produce and eating well as a personal cause?“Because food sovereignty is a community effort. If I am affected, indirectly or directly, then the whole community is affected by the lack of food.Being a food/agriculture activist, I can’t sit by in a food desert — having the skills that I have to grow food and to teach people to grow food — and do nothing. My...

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Najee’s Art in Columbus (and America)

By Frank Etheridge
In Art
October 4, 2018
6 Min Read
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When Najee Dorsey talks about Black Art in America, he talks not in the singular but in terms of “Us,” “We” and “Our.” “Our greatest strength is our flexibility, our agility,” the 45-year-old Arkansas native says of his critically, culturally and commercially booming business. “If we were a corporation, it would take too much time to cut through all the bureaucracy. If we’re more agile...

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