Three suits filed Thursday target missing public notices, unapproved incentives and a failure to protect burial sites of enslaved people before ground disturbing work began.
(CN) — In Louisiana’s West Ascension Parish, where the Mississippi River slips past the unmarked graves of enslaved people who once toiled on sugar plantations, the predominantly Black community of Modeste has endured for generations. Families there trace their roots to the plantations, worshiping in modest churches, tending modest homes, and guarding a unique heritage along a stretch of riverbank now unfortunately known as part of “Cancer Alley.”
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