The historical Freedman's town in Dallas has been plagued with industry for decades and residents have sounded the alarm for health issues in recent years
On Thursday, a new health survey is expected to shed more light on a Dallas community that have been fighting for a cleaner environment.
“This land is important to us. It’s not just an industrial area. This is our home, this is our community. This is where we’re raising our children," said Alicia Kendrick, chair of the Joppa Environmental Health Project."And it’s very important to us to give reverence to the people who walked this land and worked it and live their whole lives here, but also push forward to the future.
"Joppa has been infested with industrial. We have the train, we have roofing companies, we have recycling companies. Two miles down the street is the McCullum landfill. So we're infested with industrial,” said Community leader Temeckia Derrough. The city of Dallas has admitted to the history of neglect in Joppa and has told NBC 5 that is trying to change that.
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