This community’s Black families lost their ancestral homes. Their white neighbors got richer

A chemical firm bought out Mossville's Black homeowners and dismantled their community - but paid them less than neighboring white residents, new analysis finds

The company called it one of the most generous industrial buyouts in history.

But Sasol, the South African chemical firm, offered significantly less money to Black homeowners than white homeowners in an attempt to entice them to relocate away from an expanding chemical complex in southwest Louisiana, according to a new analysis, published for the first time by the Guardian.