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The first map depicts the percentage of African Americans living in each Ward of D.C. There are a total of 8 Wards that compose the District of Columbia.\u00a0<\/span>The second map shows the percentage of obese adults in each ward of D.C. The map shows the number of grocery stores in each ward. When there is a higher African American population there tends to be less grocery stores. This is why the percentage of obese adults are higher in areas where there are less grocery stores.<\/span><\/p>\n The place I chose for my unjust sustainabilities project is Ward 8 in Washington, D.C. The Ward 8 area consists of twelve neighborhoods<\/span>. The neighborhoods are Anacostia, Barry Farm, Bellevue, Buena Vista, Congress Heights, Douglass, Fairlawn, Garfield Heights, Knox Hill, Shipley Terrace, and Washington Highlands. <\/span>I lived in Washington D.C. for ten years of my life until my family moved to a suburb outside of D.C. The focal theme I chose is food access because my childhood in D.C consisted a lot of my family making trips to grocery stores together. Little did I know as a child that having groceries stores in a walkable distance is a luxury that many families don\u2019t have. This focal theme is important to me because I lived in an affluent neighborhood in D.C called Glover Park. During my ten years living in D.C I visited Ward 8 less than five times. That area was deemed as dangerous and uncivilized, but as a kid I didn\u2019t know that redlining, environmental bads, poverty, and underfunded education were the reasons behind the failures of those neighborhoods. That is why I chose to examine the disproportional differences of food access in Ward 8 and the neighborhoods comprising Ward 8.<\/span><\/p>\n