and quinnie was diagnosed with congestive heart failure there in 2020.: that hospital is very important, because not many people can make it to jackson, to be quite frank with you, not right here in this area, because they don't have the transportation. so, if they close the closest thing to us down, then it's going to be back to where as -- like living on the plantation out there and can't get any health care. julian: mississippi has a history of chattel slavery, of course. these health disparities also are a result of this -- these racial and economic injustices of the system that was -- that was forced upon us. stephanie: julian miller is a professor at tougaloo college in jackson, a historically black college. he is also a fifth generation deltan with a family history of heart disease. miller is helping lead a $6 million national institutes of health-funded study examining how access to healthy food can improve health disparities. julian: we plan er this five-year study to recruit 300 patients, to actually provide them access to locally grown fresh p