These books and reports span topics of migration, indigenous movements, African-American communities, and the Disability Rights movement.

How international fieldwork shaped one student’s understanding of environmental justice, community-centered research, and global inequity.

Jackson’s Rainbow Coalition approach connected labor, faith and civil rights groups, laying the groundwork for modern environmental justice activism.

Decades of environmental justice gains are giving way to shifting federal priorities, leaving communities in renewed uncertainty.

From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by host Steve Curwood with the Rev. Ben Chavis, an environmental justice pioneer. In 1981, ...

Sacoby Wilson is the Director of T.H.E. EJ Lab at the University of Maryland. He is a recipient of one of this year's Heinz Awards. The Heinz Family Foundation recently announced the recipients of ...

A climate resilience center in southwest Denver. A tree-planting project along Interstate 70. A constellation of urban gardens. Those are just some of the Colorado projects on life support after the U ...

Theologian, author and activist Benjamin Chavis spoke Wednesday at Wake Forest University's environmental justice summit in Winston-Salem. Chavis was wrongfully imprisoned in 1972 as a member of the ...

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This coverage is made possible through a partnership between WBEZ and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. There’s a yellow brick wall covered with hundreds of names tucked inside the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Commerce City Councilwoman Renee Millard-Chacon screamed — sometimes with profanity — about the climate crisis and its impact on her neighborhood, saying she ...