Here’s some local, and rarely discussed Black history, for you. The man is Mathew Foggy, Sr., the “Jimmy Dean” of East St. Louis, IL. He was my grandparent’s neighbor, on Converse Avenue, in East Boogie and rolls of his Foggy’s Pork Sausage were prominently displayed and sold from area National Food Stores and Kroger’s on […]
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