by Adam Mahoney | Jul 25, 2026 | Alabama, black communities, Climate Change, Environmental Racism, News, Transportation
Timothy Williams’ family has lived in the same community for over 150 years, but he is afraid that they are one big storm away from losing it all. Eight years ago, the Alabama Department of Transportation widened the highway that runs just a few yards from Williams’ home in Shiloh. Since then, every time it rains, water has flowed down the highway, flooding his land with enough force to…
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by Adam Mahoney | May 4, 2026 | black communities, Criminalization, Homelessness, Louisiana, Mass Incarceration, News, Poverty, Unhoused People
New Orleans — As the Louisiana state Senate debated what the National Homelessness Law Center says is “one of the cruelest anti-homeless bills in the country,” more than 50 mainly Black unhoused people sat and lay on the sidewalk in New Orleans’ Central City neighborhood. The bill, which already passed overwhelmingly through the state’s Republican-dominated House of Representatives…
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