Black communities are expected to live in more polluted communities, dealing with environmental hazards and toxins and contaminants. These too are forms of systemic violence. And the social and economic consequences of these deep-seated inequities, they reach every community.
Mandela Barnes: “Black communities are expected to live in more polluted communities, dealing with environmental hazards and toxins and…”
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Mandela Barnes discusses the environmental injustices faced by Black communities and the broader implications of systemic violence.
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