A single street separates Collier Heights from Bowen Homes. On one side, children grew up watching Herman J. Russell and Christine King Farris drive through the neighborhood like ordinary neighbors. On the other, a second-grader once asked his teacher for money, not for candy, but to buy noodles for himself and his little sister while his mother had been gone for days. Community Journalist Genia Billingsley traces how two neighborhoods separated by only a few blocks ended up with two very different futures, and why that was never an accident. ✍️ Genia Billingsley 🎨 Khoa Tran Read it at the link in bio.
