“Jenny’s Trailer” is a new mobile cooling center that provides a place of shelter for homeless people in the city of Tempe during the brutal summer heat. The trailer is a collaboration between Tempe’s Homeless Outreach Prevention Effort and ASU's Healthy Urban Environments initiative — and was funded by ASU alumna Jenny Norton.
Former Okemah neighborhood residents Doris Burt-Johnson (center left) and Josephine Pete talk about their segregated Black community on the edge of Tempe that was taken from the 600 residents that lived there to become an industrial area, during a Juneteenth celebration Sunday at the Arizona Heritage Center. The event, which was presented by the ASU Library, the Arizona Historical Society and the Black Family Genealogy and History Society, brought together more than 200 people to discuss the history of Black communities in Arizona. Photo by Charlie Leight/ASU News
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