People over Plastic

People over Plastic

PoP is the only multicultural media platform of its kind, publishing stories by BIPOC for BIPOC. We focus on uplifting our people’s environmental justice stories and we do so in a way that is both nua

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Climate & Environment

Systems of oppression beget systems of oppression

By Alexis Young This piece originally appeared in People over Plastic. In Calcasieu Parish, a little more than three hours away from New Orleans by car, sits the city of Sulphur, Louisiana. The more than 85-mile stretch of oil and gas and petrochemical plants along the Mississippi River includes the

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3 Min
By: People over Plastic
color photograph of a Black woman in a yellow t-shirt with black text reading "Rise St. James." she stands in front of the co
Climate & Environment

‘They just abandoned us’

The EPA’s civil rights investigation into environmental racism in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley was halted. Frontline communities are wondering why

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3 Min
By: People over Plastic
color photograph of a young Black woman with her hair tied back sitting in a chair in a grassy area with garden blocks. she w
Climate & Environment

‘Manifesting a great life for myself’

Louisiana Green Corps equips young workers with the tools needed to improve their lives and their communities

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7 Min
By: People over Plastic
color photograph of a Black woman in a floral pink blouse leaning on the white wooden railing of a house
Climate & Environment

In the afterlife of slavery

The descendants in Louisiana’s River Parishes confront a new era of discrimination and environmental injustice, but they’re not backing down

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6 Min
By: People over Plastic

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