At a Sept. 10 Baltimore City Council meeting, longtime Reservoir Hill neighborhood resident Angel St. Jean took the podium to tell the story of her community over the past decade. “Step by step, chip by chip, our voice has been taken away,” she said. For years, residents in the 85% Black neighborhood have worked together […]
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Can ‘Biden’s Billions’ Deliver True Environmental Justice?
This story was produced for In These Times’ August/September magazine edition. It is published digitally in partnership. Two days after a series of tornadoes ripped through Chicago’s South Side, leaving hundreds of thousands of people without electricity, Naomi Davis and Suzanne Waddell met in the front yard of Emmett Till’s childhood home to assess the […]
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Why Biden’s Hallmark Environmental Program Has Been Slow to Take Root
Naomi Davis’ dream is not too different from the one that took her grandparents from being sharecroppers in Mississippi to living on the South Side of Chicago: the vision of being a part of an autonomous Black community. Utilizing millions of dollars in grants, including $10 million from the federal government’s Justice40 initiative, Davis’ organization, […]