After a legal battle, Juneteenth ceremony honors enslaved ancestors at gravesite on Formosa Plastics land

TitleAfter a legal battle, Juneteenth ceremony honors enslaved ancestors at gravesite on Formosa Plastics land
Publication TypeNewspaper Article
AuthorsDermansky, Julie
Abstract“I feel like our ancestors are shouting and rejoicing in heaven about what we did for them today,” Sharon Lavigne, founder of RISE St. James, a community group fighting petrochemical plant construction in St. James Parish, Louisiana, said after a June 19 ceremony held in their honor. “We did not
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URLhttps://www.desmogblog.com/2020/06/19/juneteenth-st-james-louisiana-enslaved-graves-formosa-plastics
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