THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS

83777---- 02.27.05 ---- Rickey Jackson reads his bible at home in Sugar Hill while his wife Gloria lies in hospital dying of ovarian cancer in McKinney, TX on February 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---- 02.27.05 ---- Rickey Jackson reads his bible at home in Sugar Hill while his wife Gloria lies in hospital dying of ovarian cancer in McKinney, TX on February 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.