“The system that created inequality in terms of pollution choking our neighborhoods is the same system that’s choking Black people and brown people when it comes to policing,” says Dr. Robert Bullard, a scholar whose work earned him the moniker “the father of environmental justice.”

While the environmental movement has taken a conservation approach to protecting the natural environment, environmental justice acknowledges how communities of color experience significantly more pollution, food deserts, and water shortages, due to systemic racism entrenched in Community Planning and neighborhoods that continue to be segregated. In 2016, Indigenous youth stood up to the construction of the Dakota Access pipeline, calling out the con [...]