Black food collective aims to thrive in gentrified Atlanta

Keitra Bates launched Marddy’s – an Atlanta-based food collective that offers resources, education and a marketplace for Black startup food brands – as a way to keep the Black culture alive and thriving in the wake of the displacing effects of gentrification in the city. “It proves that it’s possible to get past bureaucracy and red tape when people are really determined,” says Bates.