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Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Interview with Brittany Meché
03 May 2023
This week’s featured scholar is Brittany Meché. Meché is Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies and Affiliated Faculty of Science and Technology Studies at Williams College. Her article is “…
Anthony Rogers-Wright
Joe Biden’s Petroleum Puppetry is Pulling the Strings of War and Environmental Racism
26 Apr 2023
Joe Biden is like all of his party's predecessors. He talks a good game on environmental policy, but he is the front man for the fossil fuel industry and is even waging a proxy war in Ukraine to help…
Anthony Rogers-Wright
For Black People, Ridin’ With Biden is a Health Hazard
18 Jan 2022
Like all of his predecessors, Joe Biden is in the pocket of fossil fuel corporations and other polluters. Environmental racism is a byproduct of this corruption.
Jemima Pierre, BAR Editor and Columnist
A Dirty Occupation: The UN’s Criminal Enterprise and Ecological Catastrophe in Haiti
17 Nov 2021
What are the environmental and ecological impacts of large-scale military occupations by the United Nations “peacekeeping” missions?
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Arsenic and Agrarian Racial Capitalism
07 Sep 2020
The highly toxic herbicide and multi-purpose poison arsenic was key to the production of cotton in the United States and Mexico, and in the process sickened and killed a multitude of Black and brow
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Oppression is Environmental Injustice
25 Feb 2020
The definition of environmental racism must be broadened to include such phenomena as the ghettoization of Black people, which “deteriorates the landscape that Black children grow up in,” said
Walter Johnson
American Bottom
12 Feb 2020
One of the poorest towns in the nation, nearly all-Black Centreville, Illinois, floods with raw sewage every time it rains.
Jonathan Lambert
Study Finds Racial Gap Between Who Causes Air Pollution And Who Breathes It
13 Mar 2019
Air pollution is disproportionately caused by white Americans' consumption of goods and services, but disproportionately inhaled by blacks and Hispanics.
Oliver Milman
Environmental racism case: EPA rejects Alabama town's claim over toxic landfill
07 Mar 2018
“Mere compliance with environmental permits should not negate civil rights concerns.”
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio, Week of October 2, 2017
04 Oct 2017
Zero Black Wealth by 2053, Rev. Mjumbe for Black Alliance For Peace, Political Prisoner Herman Bell Assaulted, WMXP-LP FDm, Empowering The People!