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Thursday, April 25, 2024 | Back issues
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Discrimination in land use

NEW ORLEANS — Civil rights groups representing residents of Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley” accuse the St. James Parish government of approving all requests for new industrial facilities in predominantly Black districts while rejecting all requests in white districts.

Click here to read the complaint.  

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