Erosion and sea-level rise are coming for their Louisiana home. They’re staying anyway.
Co-published with Grist. For members of Louisiana's Pointe-au-Chien Tribe, relocating means a lot more than simply packing up and moving.
A Highway That Doesn’t Exist Is Strangling a Black Neighborhood
Co-published with Bloomberg City Lab. In the Louisiana city of Shreveport, residents of Allendale have spent decades fighting a highway expansion. Even if they succeed, the neighborhood is already losing.
Louisiana’s $2-Billion Gamble: Flood the Land to Save the Coast
Co-published with Scientific American. A new engineering project would bring much-needed land to eroding marshes but at a huge cost to the fishing industry.
On the Louisiana Coast, an Indigenous Community Loses Homes to Erosion
Co-published with Scientific American. For the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw, climate change has forced a permanent retreat inland.
‘I Thought It Was Going To Break Me’: COVID’s Brutal Toll on Working Mothers
Co-published with The Guardian. As we near the first anniversary of the Covid shutdowns, we share the stories of five mothers who have been laid off, pushed out or unable to find work during the pandemic.
‘It’s Not Fair, Not Right’: How America Treats its Black Farmers
Co-published with The Guardian. Sugarcane farmers can’t survive without large crop loans. For the Provosts, who say they suffered decades of discrimination, this could be the end of the line.
The Criminalization of Black Homelessness
Co-published with Alternet. White supremacy systematically creates poverty with one hand while violently punishing it with the other.