Race, Poverty, Farming and a Natural Gas Pipeline Converge In a Rural Illinois Township
Race, Poverty, Farming and a Natural Gas Pipeline Converge In a Rural Illinois Township Leaders are pushing for a new pipeline, opposed by some, in what once was called the largest Black farming community in the Northern U.S. By Brett Chase, Chicago Sun-Times April 23, 2021 Johari Cole-Kweli feeds her chickens on her farm, Iyabo Farms, in Pembroke Township, Illinois on April 21, 2021. Credit: Pat Nabong/Sun-Times Related Five years ago, the mayor of Hopkins Park, a Black, rural community in Kankakee County, Illinois, argued for building an immigration detention center there to boost the econo...
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