{"id":19617,"date":"2022-09-07T16:44:34","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T20:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=19617"},"modified":"2022-09-07T16:44:34","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T20:44:34","slug":"buffalo-lawyer-plans-food-equity-summit-to-lead-in-closing-grocery-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/buffalo-lawyer-plans-food-equity-summit-to-lead-in-closing-grocery-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"Buffalo lawyer plans Food Equity Summit to lead in closing \u2018grocery gap\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lee-article-text first-p\">\n<p>Buffalo, New York, attorney and activist Kevin Gaughan is leading a Food Equity Summit Oct. 12 to make headway toward closing the &#8220;grocery gap&#8221; in East Buffalo and other minority urban communities. Tragically, it was the May 14 mass shooting at East Buffalo&#8217;s Tops supermarket that brought more attention to food inequity in the area. For the summit, Gaughan has tapped local and national experts, including Furman University&#8217;s Kenneth Kolb, professor and chair of the Department of Sociology, and author of &#8220;Retail Inequality: Reframing the Food Desert Debate.&#8221; Learn more in an article appearing in <a href=\"https:\/\/buffalonews.com\/news\/local\/buffalo-lawyer-plans-food-equity-summit-to-lead-in-closing-grocery-gap\/article_7c9ff752-2af8-11ed-ac64-77b10eadcd81.html\">The Buffalo News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Kolb is tapped for a Food Equity Summit in Buffalo, New York, where 10 were slain at a Tops supermarket on the city&#8217;s East Side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":14,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,22,1561],"tags":[1149,1562,1563,1564],"class_list":["post-19617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-sociology","category-the-buffalo-news","tag-food-desert","tag-food-equity","tag-tops-supermarket","tag-urban-retail"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}