The Advocate Who Keeps Exposing Environmental Racism in the U.S.

The Advocate Who Keeps Exposing Environmental Racism in the U.S.

Dec 23, 2020

Dr. Beverly Wright, co-founder of the National Black Environmental Justice Network, has spent decades empowering communities that are vulnerable to toxic chemicals.

She has a list in her head of the most environmentally racist places in America. Near the top of it is Wedgewood, a low income Black community in Pensacola, Florida, surrounded by 13 landfills.

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