environmental justice

Kathryn Wall: And you’ve done some work right here in Chapel Hill around the RENA community and the landfill here. Could you speak a little bit about that? Allen Buansi: Sure. Absolutely. So, just going back to law school, back, I guess, during 2013. The summer of 2013. This was my first summer…

David Caldwell, Jr. (DC): I could say for us, what’s happened is that… It’s nothing, you know with bad water and buzzards and stinky air, you know, what do you tell your kids? “This is going to all be yours someday? You’re going to inherit all of this, this will be yours!” It’s like, “No thank you.…

Blanche Brown: So, as far as the struggle that the Rogers Road community is facing, are there any comparisons or similarities between the Civil Rights Movement in Chapel Hill, do you think? Or just any thoughts? David Caldwell Jr.: I think the weapons have changed, but the battle still goes on. We…

Blanche Brown (BB): So do you feel like, that even, I guess it kind of, it would have to affect it, because it’s the same sort of thing with the money that the people who own landfill and that sort of thing. David Caldwell Jr. (DC): Yes, today that’s a money maker. BB: Yeah, yeah. DC: Yes, that is a…

Min. Robert Campbell is a well-known local activist who was raised by his grandparents in the Northside neighborhood. He attended Northside and Lincoln and was in the first desegregated graduating class at Chapel Hill High School (Class of ’67). He moved to Rogers Road in the 1970s where he has been…