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Gordon Plaza Was Sold as a Dream for Black Home Buyers. It Was a Toxic Nightmare.
April 5, 2022New Orleans city officials allowed developers to build homes on land contaminated with chemicals linked to cancer. They didn’t tell the people who moved in. By Darryl Fears, The Washington Post (Read...
One Year After Hunger Strike to Stop General Iron
February 1, 2022...
Black Appraisers Call Out Industry’s Racial Bias and Need for Systemic Change
June 11, 2021"The largely insular appraisal industry of 78,000 is skewed over 85 percent white with less than 2 percent of appraisers identifying as Black." By Safia Samee Ali (Read...
A Neighborhood’s Race Affects Home Values More Now Than in 1980
September 25, 2020By Brentin Mock U.S. fair housing laws passed in the 1960s and ‘70s were supposed to help bring racial parity to a housing market that since its beginning confined Black homebuyers to the cheapest forms of housing in the most undesirable...
Webinar: Call for Action to Reduce the Burden of Cancer by Addressing Environmental Risk Factors
September 10, 2020During the teleconference, members of the Cancer Free Economy Network, cancer-focused, health professionals, and public health organization leaders will present an overview of the new Joint Statement on Cancer Prevention “Cancer and Health Leaders...
Pollution Is Killing Black Americans. This Community Fought Back.
August 5, 2020By Linda Villarosa (Read...
In 1965, the City of Charlottesville Demolished a Thriving Black Neighborhood
August 22, 2017By Laura Smith (Timeline) On a Saturday morning in 1965, movers came to the Johnson home. Kathy Johnson and her three-year-old sister listened at the breakfast table, as their mother, Elsie, gave the movers instructions. The family was heartbroken....
Environmental Racism Continues to Deny Black People a Chance for a Healthy Community
May 17, 2017By Danielle Dorsey There’s a reason why Black communities are most often the hosts for waste and sewage facilities, power plants and land fills. For years, our government got away with dumping in and degrading the environment of urban areas, a...
Victory for Standing Rock
December 5, 2016In a victory for Native American rights, the earth, and her people, the US Army Corps of Engineers will not approve the Dakota Access Pipeline beneath the Missouri River near sacred burial sites of the Standing Rock Sioux. The decision is a victory...
North Dakota Access Pipeline Will Cross Tribal Waters Despite Their Disapproval
August 5, 2016by Yessenia Funes Two days ago (July 26), Native tribes—including the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation—received disappointing news: The Army Corps of Engineers approved permits to allow the 1,172-mile-long Dakota Access Pipeline to cross...