They’re fighting polluters destroying historically Black towns – starting with their own
The Guardian - 2024-04-14T11:00:52.000Z

When Joy and Jo Banner founded the Descendants Project in 2020, they didn’t expect to be defending their hometown firstWhen twin sisters Joy and Jo Banner founded their non-profit, the Descendants Project, in 2020, their goal was to protect the Black-founded “freetowns” in Louisiana’s river parishes. Like the Banners’ hometown of Wallace, many of the Black communities that abut the lower Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans were founded after emancipation by people who’d once... Read this story