Racial Injustice – Greater New Orleans Interfaith Climate Coalition

New Orleans Activist on White House Panel

Dr. Beverly White, founder and executive director of the New Orleans-based Deep South Center for Environmental Justice, has been selected to sit on a White House Advisory Council looking at racial injustice. The White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council is one

Racial Injustice, Again – in the name of progress

Over 200 years ago, a free Black man named Andrew Durnford, operated a sugar plantation where he used slaves but paid them during the Civil War and freed them after Emancipation. This plantation was across the Mississippi in Plaquemines Parish.