Black Agenda Report
Black Agenda Report
News, commentary and analysis from the black left.

  • Home
  • Africa
  • African America
  • Education
  • Environment
  • International
  • Media and Culture
  • Political Economy
  • Radio
  • US Politics
  • War and Empire

Jackson MS Organizations Petition EPA for Emergency Relief on Water System
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
18 Aug 2023
🖨️ Print Article

Black Agenda Radio · Jackson MS Organizations Petition EPA for Emergency Relief on Water System

Brooke Floyd is co-director of the Jackson People’s Assembly at the People's Advocacy Institute. Along with the Poor Peoples Campaign, Center for Constitutional Rights, Forward Justice, the ACLU of Mississippi and the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Peoples Advocacy Institute has filed an emergency petition with the EPA to provide immediate relief and transparency in resolving the decades old water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi.

environmental racism
Jackson Mississippi
Jackson water crisis
Mississippi

Related Podcasts

BAR Radio Logo
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio October 17, 2025
17 October 2025
In this week’s segment we hear analysis of the Gaza peace agreement, why it took place, and the future of Palestine.
Data center
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Data Centers, A.I., and State Repression
17 October 2025
We speak with Kali Akuno, co-founder and Director of Cooperation Jackson in Jackson, M
Black Agenda Radio September 8, 2023
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio September 8, 2023
08 September 2023
Maurice Carney is Executive Director of Friends of the Congo.

More Stories


  • East Palestine, Ohio and the Oligarchy
    Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
    East Palestine, Ohio and the Oligarchy
    01 Mar 2023
    A freight train derailment brought environmental catastrophe to a small Ohio town. While the circumstances are somewhat unique, events followed a predictable pattern in a country run by and for the…
  • ESSAY: Canada in the Caribbean, Caribbean International Service Bureau, 1971
    Editors, The Black Agenda Review
    ESSAY: Canada in the Caribbean, Caribbean International Service Bureau, 1971
    01 Mar 2023
    A 1971 statement shines a bright white light on the long history of Canadian imperialism in the Caribbean.
  • Managers
    Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
    Managers
    01 Mar 2023
                                                         
  • NATO's War in Ukraine Accelerates McCarthyism with Omali Yeshitela
    Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor , Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
    NATO's War in Ukraine Accelerates McCarthyism with Omali Yeshitela
    01 Mar 2023
    Omali Yeshitela joins BAR contributors and editors Danny Haiphong and Margaret Kimberley to discuss the FBI's raid on the African People's Socialist Party in July 2022 and what it…
  •  BAR Book Forum: Lorgia García Peña’s Book, “Translating Blackness”
    Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
    BAR Book Forum: Lorgia García Peña’s Book, “Translating Blackness”
    01 Mar 2023
    This week’s featured author is Lorgia García Peña. Peña is Professor of Latinx Studies at Tufts University. Her book is Translating Blackness: Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspective.
  • Load More
Subscribe
connect with us
about us
contact us