09/16/2025

Black Communities Are Shaken by Trump Cuts

They say they feel ‘left behind again’

The Trump administration has axed nearly two dozen projects addressing health and environmental issues in Southern Black communities, a Washington Post analysis found, reversing years of work to address pollution, sewage leaks, flooding and more.

Rural Alabama counties lost a $14 million grant to upgrade sanitation systems so decrepit that some residents have contracted hookworm. A historically Black Virginia neighborhood won't receive a $20 million grant to stop severe flooding.

In Louisiana, multiple federal efforts have been halted: a Justice Department lawsuit against a corporation accused of worsening cancer risks in a predominantly Black neighborhood; the designation of one area as a national historic landmark to limit industrialization; and grants from the Environmental Protection Agency to support monitoring air quality in "Cancer Alley," an 80-mile stretch of mostly Black towns and villages hit hard by industrial pollution.

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