The Black Voices You Didn’t Expect To Be Climate Justice Advocates with Dr. Margot Brown of EDF

Описание: In this episode, host Arielle V. King sits down with Dr. Margot Brown, The Environmental Defense Fund’s Senior Vice President for Justice and Equity, to talk about the enduring legacies and stories of Black people throughout history whose work helped propel the environmental justice movement forward, even before the traditional movement began.

You can find out more on Dr. Margot Brown and the Environmental Defense Fund by going to their website www.edf.org or following them on social media @brown_margot @environmental_defense_fund

Referenced in episode:
⁠Fannie Lou Hamer⁠ - https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexpe...
⁠Bill Clinton's EJ Executive Order⁠ - https://www.archives.gov/files/federa...
⁠Hazel M. Johnson's Story⁠ - https://www.peopleforcommunityrecover...
⁠People for Community Recovery⁠ -https://www.peopleforcommunityrecover...
Peggy Sheppard's org, ⁠WeAct⁠ - https://weact.org/
Dr. Beverly Wright's org, ⁠Deep South Center for EJ⁠ - https://dscej.org/
Vernice Miller Travis at ⁠Metropolitan Group⁠ - https://www.metgroup.com/our-team/ver...
Sharon Levine's org, ⁠Rise St. James⁠ - https://risestjames.org/
⁠17 Principles of Environmental Justice⁠ - https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/new...
⁠Toxics Waste and Race Report (1987) ⁠@ 55:45 ⁠- https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ml1310/ml131...
Dumping in Dixie⁠: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality book @ 56:36 - https://tinyurl.com/y95fryst
Maya Angelou's ⁠Still I Rise⁠ poem @ 58:07 - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem...
Alvin Ailey's⁠ Revelations⁠: ⁠video⁠ - https://ailey.org/repertory/revelations

Additional resources:
• ⁠It’s time for Environmental Studies to own up to Erasing Black People⁠ (Vice) - https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/88...
• ⁠The 1619 Project (The New York Times⁠) - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...
• ⁠Why Every Environmentalist Should be Anti-Racist (Vogue)⁠ - https://www.vogue.com/article/why-eve...
• ⁠A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and the Assault on the American Mind⁠ by Harriet A. Washington - https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-te...
• ⁠Before the Street Lights Come On: Black America’s Urgent Call for Climate Solutions⁠ by Heather McTeer Toney - https://www.broadleafbooks.com/store/...
• ⁠Black Earth Wisdom: Soulful Conversations with Black Environmentalists⁠ by Leah Penniman - https://www.harpercollins.com/product...
⁠•Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors⁠ by Carolyn Finney - https://uncpress.org/9781469614489/bl...
• ⁠From the Ground Up: Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement ⁠by Luke Cole and Sheila Foster - https://nyupress.org/9780814715376/fr...
• ⁠The Color of Law⁠ by Richard Rothstein - https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/The-...
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