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They grew up breathing Southwest Detroit air. These women and girls are pushing for new approaches to pollution.

19thnews.org · 15h · first reportShare

DETROIT — Joyce Collins has buried nearly her entire immediate family. Her father died in 1992 after cancer spread to his bones. Her oldest sister was diagnosed with lung cancer, later developed breast and brain cancer, and died in 2013. Another sister died from pancreatic cancer in 2007. Her mother died from colon cancer in 2020. […]