'We’re just waiting to die': the black residents living on top of a toxic landfill site

In the 1980s, black New Orleanians were encouraged to buy houses built by the city on top of a toxic landfill. Three decades later it is one of Louisiana's worst cancer hotspots, but residents of Gordon Plaza are still fighting to be relocated

In 1988, Jesse Perkins was 27 years old and trying to get his piece of the American dream.