"WESTLAKE, La. — Stacey Ryan already knows where he'll be buried.

It will be in Perkins Cemetery, the same place his mother and father were laid to rest after dying from cancer. It's where his aunts, uncles, grandfather and great-grandfather are interred, having been felled by various malignancies, diabetes, and ailments of the heart, respiratory system and pancreas. Most of Ryan's family is there, along with almost everyone else who ever died in Mossville, an unincorporated area founded by freed slaves.

Soon, the cemetery may be all that is left."

Talia Buford reports for the Center for Public Integrity in a joint project with InsideClimate News December 10, 2010. [2]