Leah Penniman is teaching people of color to work the land without tilling and
pesticides that harm the land and air. Hundreds are on a waiting list to learn.
Brentwood residents are opposed to a school-bus terminal in the area, and the
city has denied the community’s request for an environmental impact assessment
If the planet warms 2 degrees Celsius, new report warns, Black people are 40
percent more likely to live in places where extreme temperatures will cause more
deaths.
South Carolina destroyed Black homes to build I-26 and I-526 without much
engagement. The state vowed to engage residents for a new project, but it still
plans to take their homes.
The facility relocated from Chicago’s affluent North Side to its working-class South Side, igniting a controversy over race, class and politics. Federal intervention and a hunger strike followed.
Negotiators in Glasgow, Scotland, must find a way to scale up the use of
renewable energy in developing nations as they transition away from fossil
fuels.