As activist and Lumbee elder Donna Chavis explained this week, these pipeline projects are examples of environmental racism:
Native American, African American, and other affected communities along the route of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline have prevailed in their David versus Goliath struggle . . . and they have no tolerance for fossil fuel projects that poison the bodies, the land, the air, and the water of Indigenous, Black, and Brown communities.
In this lesson, students read, analyze, and discuss one Mississippi woman's account of discovering that her own family had been poisoned by environmental racism.
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