Racist Policies Expose Mostly Black Counties to Toxins
African Americans are 75% more likely than white people to live in areas near facilities that produce pollution and 68% live near coal-fired power plants.
Mississippi – Some of the nation’s highest unhoused homeless
Mississippi, the Magnolia State, ranks as one of the highest in the nation when it comes to people experiencing homelessness who are not living in shelters.
Mississippi has one of the highest incarceration rates in US
Mississippi has an incarceration crisis, driven in large part by its use of extreme sentences. In fact, long prison sentences have become the
norm.
