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09-05-2020, 12:28 AM
The environmental racism threatening South Carolina’s Black communities
Black South Carolinians have a long history of surviving disasters, natural and unnatural. The Lowcountry—a stretch of counties and islands where most of the land sits just above sea level—has always been prone to hurricanes and flooding. And like much of the American South, the Lowcountry has historically had high proportions of Black residents.
https://qz.com/1895242/environmental-racism-threatens-south-carolinas-lowcountry/?utm_source=YPL
Black South Carolinians have a long history of surviving disasters, natural and unnatural. The Lowcountry—a stretch of counties and islands where most of the land sits just above sea level—has always been prone to hurricanes and flooding. And like much of the American South, the Lowcountry has historically had high proportions of Black residents.
https://qz.com/1895242/environmental-racism-threatens-south-carolinas-lowcountry/?utm_source=YPL