In the morning, we got a tour of the Hill District with Terri Baltimore. When we got there, she took us to the James F. Henry Hill house center, where she talked about all the struggles that the Hill District has been facing for 30 years. One of the main problems is that there is a food desert, meaning that they did not have a grocery store until 10 years ago when a Shop n Save opened. It did not last long as it closed 6 years after it was open. The grocery store started because CMU won a contest for 2,500 dollars and it kickstarted the project. After that shut down, Salem’s Market tried to open in the hill districts, but that only lasted a year because if people went there, they had to go to a different grocery store to get the rest of the items on their list. But not all hope is lost Terri said that it might reopen and change what was wrong with it. After we left the house center, we started to walk down, and she started to talk about the Hill District federal credit union, which is one of two black owned financial institutions in Pennsylvania. It has been managed by two people the founder and Richard Witherspoon, who was somehow outside his credit union when we went to it. He told us about how the building used to be Freedom House, which started because ambulances would not go to black communities back then. After that, we went to a mural that was dedicated to August Wilson. He was a famous playwright and put the Hill District struggles on the map. Another thing we saw is that the YMCA is one of the busiest YMCAs ever. It is named after Thelma Lovette and is the only black woman whose name is on a YMCA. One thing that is powerful is that when the tour was going on, she talked to people on the street and knew everyone. Hill district is not defined by its challenges, but by its people. Community is what makes the Hill District so powerful and what suck with me the whole time. Voices of the community are what lead to meaningful and lasting change.