[dropcap size=big]A[/dropcap]n organic grocery popup servicing low income communities in L.A. is trying to revive one of Crenshaw’s only organic and historic food options, and they need your help.
Before it shut down, the store known as Mr. Wisdoms was “one of the only places you could get a veggie burger, wheatgrass shot, or anything healthy in the neighborhood,” says Olympia Auset, founder of popup operation SÜPRMARKT. Mr. Wisdom’s was located just a few doors down from what is now known as Nipsey Hussle Square — the southwest corner of Slauson Avenue at Crenshaw Boulevard in South Los Angeles, named after the late rapper who was gunned down this spring outside of his store.
Earlier this month Auset started an Indiegogo campaign to revive the Mr. Wisdoms, aware of the urgent needs for more black entrepreneurship and innovation in South L.A. Currently, the campaign has less than a week left to go and has raised about 90 percent of its first goal.
Hussle’s murder in late March of this year, affected the entire city and had a personal effect on Auset. “Our biggest lesson from Nipsey's life is actually doing what you know is needed instead of wasting time thinking about it.”