Robin McDowell

Robin McDowell is Ph.D. Candidate in African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She was a Gerald Gill Fellow at Tufts University Center for the Study of Race and Democracy and is cur- rently a Fellow at the History Design Studio at the Hutchins Center for African American Research.

Black Resistance in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley

In Revilletown, which was founded by freed slaves, a petrochemical company has seized ownership of an ancestral cemetery. But an attack on the dead is an attack on the living.

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