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Easonville, Alabama was a rural, but thriving, town until an Alabama Power project drowned it. Sixty years later, residents near an Alabama mountain faced the same threat. In both cases, the project was touted as a potential power source. But what is the cost of that progress? Read and listen to Danny McArthur's first entry in the “Place, Erased” series.
Black farmers across the Gulf South are finding ways to use climate-friendly practices to grow crops while also addressing long-standing injustices. Some are tapping into billions in federal dollars to do this. Others are learning how to do climate-smart agriculture through Black land-grant universities and colleges. For NPR’s Climate Solutions Week this year, I spoke to small Black-owned farms in our region who are doing this work. Here’s my latest: https://lnkd.in/eYKuqZmM
My latest story about the struggles residents in one mobile home park in Rolling Fork, MS, face in returning to normal after last year’s tornadoes.
A year after a deadly tornado tore through Mississippi, residents are struggling to rebuild — especially in Rolling Fork, where many people died. Danny McArthur's latest feature reports on the barriers that are keeping people in one mobile home community from returning home and rebuilding their lives.
It was nice to walk down memory lane for this post - as you can see, I have a lot more to say:
Get an inside look at the making of our recent “Place, Erased” series from one of the reporters involved — Danny McArthur. In a guest column for the GSN’s Medium blog, Danny details the series’ origins and the lessons they learned from reporting on each town.
This story was a lot of fun to report. I came in thinking one thing but walked away with a completely different understanding of Clermont Harbor.
In the final part of our “Place, Erased” series, Danny McArthur travels to an area of coastal Mississippi that’s been wiped off the map entirely. But if you ask the residents that still live there, Clermont Harbor is alive and well.
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