As grocery stores continue to close across Milwaukee, multiple organizations are working to keep Milwaukeeans fed.
In the last year, several Pick ‘n Saves, an Aldi and a Sentry store all closed. This followed a string of Walgreens closures and a Walmart closing. Most of the stores that closed were on the city’s North or Northwest Side.
Local grassroots organizations, including Metcalfe Park Community Bridges, the African American Roundtable and Hunger Task Force, have stepped in to ensure that Milwaukeeans have access to healthy food and are treated with dignity and respect by the food system.
Addressing a crisis
Melody McCurtis, deputy director and lead organizer of Metcalfe Park Community Bridges, a resident-led organization, said there’s more than a food desert in the city: There is food apartheid…