After a White Town Rejected a Data Center, Developers Targeted a Black Area

After a White Town Rejected a Data Center, Developers Targeted a Black Area

In December, on a two-lane road not far from the ACE Basin, a protected ecosystem and wildlife refuge in South Carolina, Paul Black drove past St. Paul AME Church and the cemetery where his wife’s grandfather, great-grandfather, and great-grandmother are buried, then slowed as the trees opened onto the piney tract. ​Black is an environmental activist who has spent years fighting polluting projects across the South. But now he and Black residents…