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Anti-Black Racism Is Environmental Hazard
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
02 Feb 2021

Margaret Kimberley · Anti-Black Racism Is Environmental Hazard

Environmental justice should be put at the cutting edge of the social justice movement, said Dr Ugo Edu, an African American Studies professor at UCLA, and a medical anthropologist who has done field work in Brazil. “If the police are stopping you arbitrarily, we should talk about that as creating an unsafe environment,” said Edu. “The kind of anxiety, the kind of vigilance that is necessary to ive in” such an environment “doesn’t bode well in terms of your health.”

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