New Orleans Activists Call out Environmental Racism Alongside Police Brutality in Week of Protests

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By Julie DermanskyJun 9, 2020, 7:57 pm167 pts
Read time: 9 mins On June 3, just hours before New Orleans police tear-gassed a group protesting racial violence, Jesse Perkins, a Black veteran, called out the many shades of racism and violence his community faces daily. “What they inflicted on us was a slow violence. What is happening every day to these…

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