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"We Can Do Better" Movie Screening
Sat, Feb 17
|Tarboro
A documentary film about a win over environmental racism in Kingsboro, North Carolina
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Time & Location
Feb 17, 2024, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Tarboro, 3244 McNair Rd, Tarboro, NC 27886, USA
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About the event
A documentary film about a win over environmental
racism in Kingsboro, North Carolina
In 1995, Tarboro attorney Marvin V. Horton uncovered a plan of Iowa Beef Processors, Inc.,
(IBP) to locate a giant hog slaughterhouse in the predominantly Black community of
Kingsboro. Concerned residents formed the Citizens for Responsible Zoning and organized
a mass effort to stop IBP, which forced Edgecombe County Commissioners to vote down the
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