Environmental Racism

Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
The Manifestation of Surplus Populations: How Gary, Indiana is the Latest Exemplar of the Wrong Complexion for Protection
26 Aug 2026
White supremacy works through institutions, and FEMA's formula for allocating disaster relief shows us how the state decides which neighborhoods are prioritized and which are left to suffer. Those in…
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
White Supremacy and Climate Change: A Sinister Symbiosis
19 Aug 2026
The climate movement will never be effective as long as it refuses to confront white supremacy within its own organizations and as a belief system which is unconcerned about Black and brown death.
Gary Wilson
Musk’s A.I. Power Plant Exposes Capitalism’s Data-Center Crisis
27 May 2026
A Black community in Tennessee is living with the environmental impact of a data center brought to them by Elon Musk and conniving elected officials.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
African Descendants and Just Transition in the Climate Crisis
24 Apr 2026
The first International Conference to Phase Out Fossil Fuels takes place in Santa Marta, Colombia, from April 24 to April 29. Anthony Rogers-Wright, a Black Agenda Report contributor, provides…
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
A Final Solution to The Human Surplus Problem (Or, How the End of EPA’s Endangerment Finding Also Ends the Farce of Trump “Populism”)
18 Feb 2026
Trump's EPA denies that greenhouse gases endanger public health. It is destroying public health protections and confirms that environmental policy serves corporate interests exclusively.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Marisa Solomon’s Book, “The Elsewhere Is Black”
04 Feb 2026
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Marisa Solomon. Solomon is Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and…
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
The EPA’s Zero Sum Game Surfaces a Dialectical Paradox That Should Be Celebrated, Not Decried
04 Feb 2026
The debate over the EPA's new math misses the point. The agency hasn't changed its values, it has simply stopped pretending to account for communities it was never built to protect.
Adam Mahoney
After a White Town Rejected a Data Center, Developers Targeted a Black Area
14 Jan 2026
Four million Americans live within 1 mile of a data center. The communities closest to them are “overwhelmingly” non-white.
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
Rising Temperatures and the Rising Need for a Black Radical Lens in the Climate Change Discourse.
04 Jun 2025
Liberal climate movements keep bargaining with capitalism, but the Black Radical Tradition knows survival requires its destruction. Environmentalism must adopt principles of abolition and anti-…
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
NYC’s Congestion Pricing Program Comes with the Cost of Sacrificing Constitutionally Mandated Human Rights of NYC’s Environmental Justice Communities
08 Jan 2025
NYC's new congestion pricing program has grave environmental justice implications for poor, working class, and Black communities which will be subjected to increased pollution and poor air quality.