A Look at Cancer Alley from the Front Lines

• This video shows the dangers that pollution has on human health and reveals how large companies can directly impact the well-being of entire cities. 
• This short video includes interviews from citizens who live in a very polluted area of the United States and conveys their frustration about how low income, marginalized communities are disproportionately affected by chemical pollution. 
  

Positives

• This video offers first-person accounts of the effects pollution can have on the well-being of human beings.
• The interviews in the video are very powerful.
• There is an online petition students can sign.
  

Additional Prerequisites

• The people who are interviewed use some strong language, which is bleeped out.
  

Differentiation

• This video could be integrated into a U.S. Government class and could be used as a discussion tool to ask if everyone in the United States has the freedom to pursue "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness". 
• This video is a great example of how people of color and low-income communities are disproportionately impacted by climate change and industrial pollution.
• This video could be shown in health and science classes to address the impact of pollution on illnesses like cancer.
  
• Some other related resources are this video called How "Forever Chemicals" Polluted America's Water, this article called Confronting Carbon Inequality, this StC lesson plan called Redlining & Environmental Racism, and this article called Boiling Point: These Maps Show How Air Pollution and COVID-19 Can Be a Deadly Mix.