The Journal Editor has retracted the article “Breaking the Chains of Food Apartheid: Youth Participatory Action Research to Spark a Food Revolution in East Oakland” by A. A. Akom, Aekta Shah, and Aaron Nakai published online in Race and Social Problems (DOI:10.1007/s12552-014-9137-y) as it contains portions of text that have been duplicated from the article “Fried Chicken and Fresh Apples: Racial Segregation as a Fundamental Cause of Fast Food Density in Black Neighborhoods” by Naa Oyo A. Kwate published in Health & Place 2008, 14(1) pages 32–44. We apologize to the readers that this was not detected during the submission and review process.