Happy Birthday Henrietta Lacks! Family and Attorney Ben Crump Announce Huge Lawsuit Settlement
In 1951, Henrietta Lacks was a mother living in Baltimore, battling cervical cancer. While Lacks suffered and later died from...
Environmental Justice and Climate Leaders Arrested for Staging Sit-in at the Entrance to Senate Office Building
Washington, DC- The heads of over a dozen climate and Environmental Justice organizations were arrested Thursday, September 22nd for blocking...
Jadakiss, Wale, Backyard Band, Mumu Fresh, and More Headline First Annual Quality of Life Advocacy Day and Festival
https://youtu.be/FJCss0SMIpk The Equity or Else Campaign, led by the Journey for Justice Alliance, is heading to Washington, DC September 22-24th,...
The White House Wants Your Opinion on the Federal Environmental Justice Scorecard
Via: White House Council on Environmental Quality, Office of Environmental Justice The White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) is...
Call for Inputs: The United Nations Wants Your Thoughts on Women, Girls and the Right to a Clean, Healthy and Sustainable Environment
Via: United Nations Office of the High Commissioner The Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment, David Boyd, is...
What’s Going on With the Jackson, MS Water Crisis and How to Help.
On August 29, 2022, flooding of the Pearl River damaged infrastructure at a Mississippi water treatment facility leading to contaminated...
How to Fight Back Against Racist Robots
Welcome to the future! Are you ready to tackle biased algorithms and mechanical bloodhounds? Let’s go!
Historic Environmental Justice For All Act Passes Through Committee, Now One Step Closer to Becoming Law
The Environmental Justice For All Act passed the House Natural Resources Committee by a vote of 26-21. Legislators are preparing for a big fight to get it passed by the House and Senate.
Livestream: House Committee on Natural Resources to Hold Historic Markup of the Environmental Justice for All Act
The Environmental Justice For All Act, will go before the full House Natural Resources Committee for markup for the first time in the bill’s legislative history.
New Music: Tank and the Bangas Lament Over Gentrification on Single, “There Goes The Neighborhood”.
New Orleans-based music group, Tank and The Bangas offer an all-too-common story on the circumstances that changed grandma’s block on their latest single, “There Goes the Neighborhood”.