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Ellis Long

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Ellis Long is a resident of Uniontown, Alabama, and a co-founder of Black Belt Citizens Fighting for Health and Justice.

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Human Rights
Environment

VOICES: How much more environmental injustice must Uniontown, Alabama, bear?

By Ellis Long

September 23, 2016 - The predominantly poor, African-American community in Alabama that became the dumping ground for coal ash spilled in the 2008 TVA disaster in Tennessee is embroiled in an ongoing fight for environmental justice — and there's now an opening for the public to weigh in.