“East Chicago officials knowingly built the elementary school and, later, the public housing complex on a polluted industrial brownfield, then ignored decades of warning signs that people in this predominantly black area of the city were being poisoned.”
Read more: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/on-poisoned-ground-burns
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