National Poor People’s Campaign leader says no to Byhalia Pipeline

By , Daily Memphian Updated: April 18, 2021 9:02 PM CT | Published: April 18, 2021 9:02 PM CT

‘Not here, not now, not ever on our watch,' said Rev. Dr. William Barber II during a rally Sunday protesting the Byhalia Connection Pipeline that would go through majority Black, poor neighborhoods in southwest Memphis. 

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Daja E. Henry is originally from New Orleans, Louisiana. She is a graduate of Howard University and the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University and currently is a general assignment reporter.