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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 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?
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.”
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Obama Chugs Flint Water, Dodges Federal Responsibility, Delivers Another Cynical Lecture to Black Folks
12 May 2016
"the president cynically leveraged his blackness to obscure the fact that he was refusing to go after the guilty parties, while proposing no measures to ensure it didn't happen again."