THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS

83777---- 04.27.05 ---- On the day of her death, Rickey Jackson holds his wife Gloria Jackson to offer comfort from the pain as she lies under hospice care dying of ovarian cancer at the age of 40 in McKinney, TX on April 27, 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---- 04.27.05 ---- On the day of her death, Rickey Jackson holds his wife Gloria Jackson to offer comfort from the pain as she lies under hospice care dying of ovarian cancer at the age of 40 in McKinney, TX on April 27, 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.