Environmental Racism

AfroResistance
Public Protests Persist in Panama: A Country Without a Colonial Enclave Mentality
15 Nov 2023
Panamanians are in protest against a contract granted to a Canadian Mining Company. Black communities are particularly impacted by environmental degradation and displacement caused by open-pit mining…
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
Whiter than Green: How a Not So Secret Listserv Exercises white “Supremacy” Ideology In Lieu of Climate and Racial Justice
20 Sep 2023
Liberalism impacts every movement in the U.S. and climate justice organizations are not exempt.
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
How Joe Biden and The Democratic Party’s Climate Agenda Increases Environmental Racism More Than It Reduces Emissions [A Three Part Series]
06 Sep 2023
The environmental benefits of Biden's Inflation Reduction Act are non-existent for Black and other marginalized communities.
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?
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.