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Akeeshea Daniels is a community activist fighting for environmental justice and public health in East Chicago, Indiana.

Photo of children playing in a yard at the West Calumet Housing Complex in East Chicago, Ind., on August 24, 2016.

April 6, 2021

HUD Knowingly Poisoned Our Children. This Can Never Happen Again.

By Akeeshea Daniels / Midwest Office

No one ever told me I was moving onto the polluted grounds of an old lead refinery.