Activists fight back against environmental racism

The Greenfield Louisiana Project has begun to construct a grain elevator in Wallace, Louisiana that Jo Banner, co-director of the Descendants Project, said is an act of environmental racism.

The Descendants Project is an organization founded by Jo Banner and her sister, Joy Banner. The organization began with the intent of preserving slave descendants’ history in their city. However, soon after they began their work, they heard about the grain terminal where the elevator would be built and began advocating against the construction.