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Simply Wholesome is the ‘Gateway to Wakanda’
Roy Choi gets a tour of Simply Wholesome, a Black-owned community institution in Crenshaw and finds out how this business survived the L.A. 1992 Uprising and why they're a beacon for the surrounding community.
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