THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS

83777 ----- Tarreon Nobles, left, and his girlfriend Nikosha Jackson, 18, nine-months pregnant, sit outside their apartment in Sugar Hill as Pastor Rock, right, holds their son Quintaveon Nobles, 1, in McKinney, TX on June 25, 2007..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 ----- Tarreon Nobles, left, and his girlfriend Nikosha Jackson, 18, nine-months pregnant, sit outside their apartment in Sugar Hill as Pastor Rock, right, holds their son Quintaveon Nobles, 1, in McKinney, TX on June 25, 2007..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.