OUR MISSION

We aim to champion the voice of the Black descendant community while demanding action that supports their total well-being.

WHAT IS THE
DESCENDANTS PROJECT?

The Descendants Project is an emerging organization committed to the intergenerational healing and flourishing of the Black descendant community in the Louisiana river parishes. The lands of the river parishes hold the intersecting histories of enslavement, settler colonialism, and environmental degradation.

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Stop the Wallace Grain Elevator

Many Waters House

H.O.P.E

Jobs That Don't Stink

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Meet the New Mellon Foundation Initiative That Is Keeping and Shaping Our Places

The New York–based organization’s Humanities in Place program aims to support designers who are preserving and building more just communities.

Greenfield cancels plans for grain terminal in St. John the Baptist Parish

Greenfield Louisiana announced on Tuesday, August 6, that it is canceling its nearly three-year-old plans to build a grain export terminal in a historically Black town in St. John the Baptist Parish.

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Historically Black town in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley is divided over a planned grain terminal

Sisters Jo and Dr. Joy Banner live just miles from where their ancestors were enslaved more than 200 years ago in St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana. Their tidy Creole cottage cafe in the small riverfront town of Wallace lies yards from property their great-grandparents bought more than a century ago.