Environmental Injustice: Race, Class, and Toxic Inequality

Join the Center for Brooklyn History in a three-part series exploring the intersection of racial inequality and the environment.

Part 1 delves into the systemic roots of environmental racism and confronts a critical question: Why are communities of color and low-wealth populations disproportionately exposed to environmental hazards?

Part 2 explores the intersection of racial inequality and the environment. This time they explore the situation today. Leaders from across the country share solutions to environmental crises within their communities and discuss a new urgent challenge –  the roll back of fundamental protections at the federal level.

Part 3 looks ahead. Join them in imagining a future free from the race and class based divides that determine who is — and isn’t — protected from toxins, pollutants, flooding, and the impacts of global warming.