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I don’t think we should talk about reducing greenhouse gases and saving the planet without environmental justice being shoulder to shoulder with that.

— Beverly Wright Interview (2022)

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The Harvard study comes out and I’m like, ‘OK, now I understand.' Black people are dying because of where we live.

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After Katrina, trying to get back to the city was awful for Black people and we still haven’t fully recovered.

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People of my age group are so angry, Why are we in the same place? We’ve actually lost some of the progress.

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history of human slavery spawned environmental racism in the United States.

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