Despite the snow and sub-freezing temperatures on Monday, Dr. Dorceta Taylor delivered SNRE’s annual MLK Lecture to a full house of faculty, students, and community members. The talk, entitled “Race, Poverty, and Access to Food in America: Resistance, Survival, and Sustainability,” followed the trajectory of much of Dr. Taylor’s environmental justice scholarship and teaching, using history as a lens to understanding present food disparities.
Majora Carter, the founder and executive director of Sustainable South Bronx, a grassroots organization dedicated to urban revitalization in the nation's poorest community, will be the featured speaker on Jan. 15 at the School of Natural Resources and Environment during its annual observance of Martin Luther King Day. The environmental-justice activist and MacArthur Fellow will deliver her formal remarks, "Environmental Justice: Civil Rights for the 21st Century," at 5 p.m. in room 1040 of the Dana Building. The event is cosponsored by the School of Natural Resources and Environment, the School of Social Work, and the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies of the College of Literature, Science and the Arts