THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS

83777---- 02.26.05 ---- Pastor Rock talks with Rickyshia Jackson, left, as Lisa Tarver and Toby Collier hang a portrait of Martin Luther King in the Jackson's new house on Church Street in preparation for Gloria Jackson to be released from hospital in McKinney TX on February 26, 2005..Pastor Rock has spent the past three years fighting race, poverty and violence at Sugar Hill, the poorest of the poor living in public housing in Texas' richest county, Collin County. Originating in 1969, the McKinney apartment complex rose next to an old cotton field, with 100 units that would battle decades of economic annd racial isolation, squalor, criminal neglect, crack cocaine and bureaucratic equivocation supported by millions of taxpayer dollars.

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83777---- 02.26.05 ---- Pastor Rock talks with Rickyshia Jackson, left, as Lisa Tarver and Toby Collier hang a portrait of Martin Luther King in the Jackson's new house on Church Street in preparation for Gloria Jackson to be released from hospital in McKinney TX on February 26, 2005..Pastor Rock has spent the past three years fighting race, poverty and violence at Sugar Hill, the poorest of the poor living in public housing in Texas' richest county, Collin County. Originating in 1969, the McKinney apartment complex rose next to an old cotton field, with 100 units that would battle decades of economic annd racial isolation, squalor, criminal neglect, crack cocaine and bureaucratic equivocation supported by millions of taxpayer dollars.