'Investigative reporter
Rebecca Burns surveys the toxic legacy environmental racism and housing discrimination in East Chicago, Indiana -- as a public housing complex built over the site of a former lead smelter poisoned generations of people, far beyond the concern of developers and politicians responsible for the site's location. Burns wrote the article "On Poisoned Ground: East Chicago’s legacy of lead pollution" for
The Baffler
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Published on January 20, 2018 10:38