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Yugonda Sample-Jones is a resident and activist in Southeast Newport News.
Track 1: In this conversation, Sample-Jones describes her experience advocating for residents during the design process for the Choice Neighborhood Initiative, a federally-funded program aimed at supporting neighborhoods with HUD-assisted housing. Lifelong residents Millie Taylor and her cousin Raymond Wazeerud-Din join the conversation from Taylor’s porch on 20th Street in Newport News, discussing their decades of living in the area and environmental concerns through the generations.
This conversation with Sample-Jones takes place outdoors and on the site of the Choice Neighborhood Initiative, near the East End neighborhood of Newport News.
Track 2: This conversation takes place at the coal terminal in Newport News. Sample-Jones drives around with interviewer Adrian Wood and discusses the impact of the coal terminal on residents of Southeast Newport News.
