THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS

83777---- 03.24.05 ---- Rickyshia Jackson, 20, left, holds her one month old nephew Quintel Wilson as her sister Nikosha Jackson, 15, center, plays with the baby as brothers Jaterius Jackson, 10 months, and Jajreon Smith, 2, play in the girl's bedroom in McKinney, TX on March 24, 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---- 03.24.05 ---- Rickyshia Jackson, 20, left, holds her one month old nephew Quintel Wilson as her sister Nikosha Jackson, 15, center, plays with the baby as brothers Jaterius Jackson, 10 months, and Jajreon Smith, 2, play in the girl's bedroom in McKinney, TX on March 24, 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.