Opinion: It’s big oil vs. defiant communities in major environmental dispute
Justin Pearson, co-founder of a grassroots group leading the fight against the Byhalia Connection pipeline, speaks during a rally on Monday, Feb. 8, 2021 outside the National Civil Rights Museum. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
In this fight, Black people and white people are on the same side. So are local politicians who don’t always agree on matters of public policy.
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Byhalia Connection Protect Our Aquifer Boxtown Westwood Sierra Club Deidre Malone Edmund Ford Sr. Edmund Ford Jr.
Otis Sanford
Otis Sanford is professor emeritus of Journalism and Strategic Media at the University of Memphis and political commentator for WATN-TV ABC24 News. Contact him at o.sanford@memphis.edu. Follow him on Twitter @otissanford.
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