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December 23, 2020 St. James Parish, Louisiana is a small black community at the end of the Bayou Bridge Pipeline, they demand a safe and open evacuation route. Given the level of toxicity in this parish, it has earn the name of Cancer Ally. Photo by Fernando Lopez for Survival Media Agency. On All Saints’ Day, Nov. 1, religious leaders from multiple denominations gathered in a sugar cane field in St. James Parish where evidence suggests enslaved African Americans were buried. In 2018, archaeological consultants for Formosa, a company that plans to build a giant plastics manufacturing facil...

Bobbi-Jeanne Misick / WWNO At 1 p.m. Friday, a short line of people rounded the corner of busy Canal Street and shady North Clark Street in front of First Grace United Methodist Church to get their free flu vaccines. The New Orleans Health Department had organized another of its mass vaccination exercises to prepare for COVID-19 immunization efforts. At First Grace, 20 volunteers were there to greet residents, fill out their information and direct them to the two vaccination stations set up inside the church foyer and the one set up outdoors for anyone who did not feel safe indoors. Seve...