Linnentown, Georgia destroyed a Black neighborhood. Now former residents want justice. Many who lived in Linnentown are urging leaders in Athens to pay for destroying their community more than 50 years ago to make way for the University of Georgia. Hattie Thomas Whitehead has fond memories of her childhood in Linnentown, a 22-acre neighborhood in Read More…
Florida White supremacist Prison Guards Work With Impunity In June, three Florida prison guards who boasted of being white supremacists beat, pepper sprayed and used a stun gun on an inmate who screamed “I can’t breathe!” at a prison near the Alabama border, according to a fellow inmate who reported it to the state. The Read More…
The US’s Biggest County Jails Are Sites of Extreme Environmental Injustice After first being forced to live in chemically toxic communities, Black and Brown people are then incarcerated in jails where they cannot escape some of the worst pollution in the nation. “Jails worsen things like traffic pollution and the degradation of natural resources.” For Read More…
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