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
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' 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
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
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
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
