Friday, June 19, 2020

Taiwanese company attempts to block access to slave grave site

"A group of Black residents from St. James Parish, Louisiana, got the green light on Thursday to hold an hour-long Juneteenth prayer service on a burial plot containing the remains of formerly enslaved people. The ceremony, planned for Friday, has been a point of contention — not due to fears over coronavirus, which has hit the community particularly hard, but because the site technically belongs to Taiwanese plastics manufacturer Formosa."  --- Rachel Ramirez article on grist    https://grist.org/justice/juneteenth-formosa-st-james-parish-cancer-alley-black-burial-ground/


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