National Black Leaders Call on La. Gov. Edwards to Support RISE St. James in Stopping Formosa Plastics
June 16, 2020
June 16, 2020
NEW YORK, June 16 -- The Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following news release:
Prominent African American authors, scholars and civil rights leaders sent a letter to Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards on Sunday evening asking him to use his authority to stop one of the world's largest plastics plants, Formosa Plastics, from exacerbating the COVID-19 health crisis and destroying historic Black communities in St. James Parish, Louisiana. Local residents, led by the grou . . .
Prominent African American authors, scholars and civil rights leaders sent a letter to Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards on Sunday evening asking him to use his authority to stop one of the world's largest plastics plants, Formosa Plastics, from exacerbating the COVID-19 health crisis and destroying historic Black communities in St. James Parish, Louisiana. Local residents, led by the grou . . .