Environmental Racism

Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio August 17, 2023
18 Aug 2023
U.S. and French imperialism in Niger, Cop City on the Atlanta ballot, and Jackson MS petitions the EPA for emergency action on their water system.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Jackson MS Organizations Petition EPA for Emergency Relief on Water System
18 Aug 2023
Brooke Floyd is co-director of the Jackson People’s Assembly at the People's Advocacy Institute.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Interview with Mukul Sharma
07 Jun 2023
This week’s featured scholar is Mukul Sharma. Sharma is Professor of Environmental Studies at Ashoka University. His article is “Caste, Environment Justice, and Intersectionality of Dalit–Black…
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 Contributor
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.