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Lawyers push to relocate students from an elementary school next to chemical plant in St. John
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund is asking a federal judge to require St. John the Baptist Parish School Board to relocate students from an elementary school located right next to a chemical plant. Fifth Ward Elementary School sits about 500 feet from the Denka Performance Elastomers plant in the small,...
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Historically Black Cancer Alley town splits over a planned grain terminal in Louisiana. WALLACE, La. (AP) — In a clash over the past versus the future, some descendants of enslaved people in St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana, are fighting to keep a grain terminal from being built in their historic Black neighborhood. The Greenfield Wallace Grain Export Facility would take in and export grain byproducts via trucks, trains and barges. Some residents are concerned construction and pollution from the facility will destroy the historic Black community of Wallace. Other residents hope it will bring jobs and revitalize the town. Without it, they fear Wallace's population will continue to decline.
Historic inauguration in St. John the Baptist Parish
History was made Saturday in the 40th Judicial District Court of Louisiana, which encompasses St. John the Baptist Parish, as Felicia Feist was sworn in as the new Clerk of Court. Feist is the first African American elected to the position. She was sworn in by the Honorable Madeline Jasmine — the first African American judge elected […] The post Historic inauguration in St. John the Baptist Parish appeared first on L'Observateur.
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