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We Can Do Better: The Kingsboro Fight Against Environmental Racism

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By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer Nearly 30 years after residents of the predominantly Black Kingsboro community–sitting in between Rocky Mount and Tarboro–stopped a massive hog slaughterhouse from being built in their neighborhood, the fight is being recognized as a defining environmental justice victory in Edgecombe County. In the mid-1990s, Iowa Beef Processors (IBP) proposed constructing a 300-acre hog slaughterhouse between Rocky Mount and Tar…
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caro.news broke the news in Raleigh, United States on Wednesday, February 11, 2026.
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