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Clean Air, Clean Water, and Clean Energy Jobs are My Reasons for Voting for Kamala Harris for President of the United States

November 2, 2024

By Warren Kirby I’m a lifelong Milwaukee resident, a clean energy union worker, and a father to two girls, ages one and three. This election is important to me because I want to provide my daughters with the best future. I want my little girls to grow up with air that’s safe to breathe, water […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Donald Trump, Environmental Equity, Environmental Justice, Harris-Walz Campaign, Kamala Harris, Voting, Warren Kirby

EXCEPT WHERE INDICATED, THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED ON THIS PAGE ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF THE MADISON TIMES

Juneteenth: Environmental Justice

June 22, 2024

By David Crowley Milwaukee County Executive In 2016, 89-year-old Opal Lee set out to walk from Fort Worth, Texas, to Washington D.C. as part of her campaign to make Juneteenth a national holiday. Opal Lee, who’s known as the “grandmother of Juneteenth,” ultimately collected more than 1.5 million signatures. Five years later, Opal was in […]

Popular Interests In This Article: David Crowley, Environmental Justice, Juneteenth Day

EXCEPT WHERE INDICATED, THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED ON THIS PAGE ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF THE MADISON TIMES

Environmental Justice

February 24, 2024

The clean energy transition is here, and it’s finally beginning to address the environmental racism that has plagued communities.

Popular Interests In This Article: Antonio Butts, Environmental Justice, Walnut Way

Biden-Harris Administration Holds Justice40 Week of Action

May 28, 2022

By Karen Stokes After a year of progress on advancing environmental justice, on Monday the Biden-Harris Administration launched a Justice40 Week of Action to highlight additional steps that are delivering real benefits to communities across the country. “We are using the week to highlight some of the key areas of the Justice40 initiative,” said Brenda […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Brenda Mallory, Environmental Justice, Joe Biden, Justice40 Week of Action, Karen Stokes

From Slavery to Civil Rights and Environmental Racism

December 29, 2018

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia In addition to the millions of able-bodied individuals captured and transported, the death toll and the economic and environmental destruction resulting from wars and slave raids were startlingly high. In the famines that followed military actions, the old and very young were often killed or left to […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Air Pollution, Environmental Justice, Environmental Racism, Racial Discrimination, Stacy M. Brown

Black Churches Show Support for Obama’s Environment Plan

November 13, 2015

by Savannah Harris Special to the NNPA News Wire from HU News Service WASHINGTON – Leaders of the nation’s major Black churches — representing nearly 13 million African-American members — presented over 10,000 pastors’ signatures to Congressional Black Caucus members in support of President Obama’s Clean Power Plan. The leaders said they are making the […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Black Churches, Congressional Black Caucus CBC, Environmental Justice, George Battle, Samuel C. Tolbert Jr., Savannah Harris, Timothy Tee Boddie

Why We Must Fight for Environmental Justice for People of Color in 2016

October 23, 2015

By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist The Civil Rights Movement in the United States identified a long list of issues that were broadly considered the historical and contemporary evidence of systematic racial discrimination and injustice. With the 2016 presidential election rapidly approaching, the critical importance of environmental justice for Black Americans, Latino Americans, Native […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Benjamin Chavis, Benjamin F. Chavis Jr., Environmental Justice



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