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  • RISE activists. Six older Black women standing side-by-side against a fence holding a hand out, all wearing yellow t-shirts and black jackets.

    Louisiana Residents Say No to Plastics Factory Being Built on Enslaved Burial Sites

    “Our ancestors are crying out to us from their graves.”
    N. Jamiyla Chisholm Mar 12, 2020 5:53PM EDT
    Mossville, Louisiana. Trailer standing alone in the middle of dug up ground for miles.

    Watch: One Man Stands Up to a $21 Billion Petrochemical Plant Project in 'Mossville'

    The new documentary “Mossville: When Great Trees Fall,” spotlights a Louisiana resident’s fight against a cancer-causing company in a predominately Black community.
    N. Jamiyla Chisholm Mar 4, 2020 12:24PM EST
    Cooked Doc. Aerial view of the after-effects of a storm.

    'Cooked' Shows How Climate Change Kills People of Color

    The documentary explores how systemic racism resulted in 739 deaths during the 1995 Chicago heat wave—and how disaster could strike again.
    N. Jamiyla Chisholm Jan 28, 2020 2:20PM EST
    Person stands in front of two tents on a field with the Puerto Rican flag flying in between.

    Trump Administration Places Prohibitive Restrictions On Disaster Relief for Puerto Rico

    “These decisions have been inhumane and negligent to every person who is still in recovery from Hurricane Maria and now the earthquakes.”
    N. Jamiyla Chisholm Jan 16, 2020 1:31PM EST
    a road that is flooded out

    Yankton Sioux Nation Struggling To Recover From Climate Disasters Without Federal Assistance

    Health and infrastructure issues plague reservation after a series of floods and cyclones.

    Ayana Byrd Dec 2, 2019 2:56PM EST
    a man in Virgin Islands looking up at his home without a roof after Hurricane Irma

    FEMA Hurricane Recovery Funds Not Spent in Puerto Rico or U.S. Virgin Islands

    “You can kill people with a gun or you can kill them with neglect.”

    Ayana Byrd Nov 27, 2019 11:46AM EST
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