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Military Industrial Complex Poisons Black Town
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
18 May 2021

Margaret Kimberley · Military Industrial Complex Poisons Black Town

Water and land in the small Black town of Tallevast, Florida, was for two generations contaminated by beryllium refined for Lockheed Martin, NASA and other big players in the US war and space business, said Dr James Manigault-Bryant, professor of Africana Studies at Williams College and a descendant of a Tallevast founding family. “What makes Tallevast distinct is the clear connection to the military industrial complex,” said Manigault-Bryant, author of the Boston Review article, “Poisoning Tallevast.”

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