Cancer Alley
The Activist Who Keeps Exposing Environmental Racism in the U.S.
Dr. Beverly Wright, co-founder of the National Black Environmental Justice Network, has spent decades empowering communities that are vulnerable to toxic chemicals.
'Cancer Alley' Has Some of the Highest Coronavirus Death Rates in the Country
As predominately Black communities in the polluted areas along the Mississippi from New Orleans to Baton Rouge face heightened risks from COVID-19, the EPA has suspended enforcement of the environmental rules designed to protect them.
'Cancer Alley' Residents Are Trying to Stop a Huge Plastics Plant from Being Built on the Graves of Slaves
“Our community cannot handle another chemical plant.”
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