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Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Dr. King's Legacy Four Decades After His Death in Memphis
This April 4th marks the fortieth anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis. Dr. King was called to the city in 1968 on behalf of striking garbage. Although Memphis was Dr. King's last campaign, his legacy lives on today in contemporary struggles to make African American and other communities of color healthier, greener, safer, more sustainable and more just.

Saturday, November 24, 2007
Toxics Tour Planned to Highlight Environmental Racism
On Thursday, November 29, a coalition of national leaders from around the country will meet at Nashville's Fisk University and board a bus for Dickson, Tennessee, a small town located about 35 miles to the west. The leaders will participate in the "Take Back Black Health Toxics Tour" of the Harry Holt family homestead that was poisoned by toxic racism and the deadly TCE contamination from the Dickson County Landfill.

Tuesday, September 4, 2007
EPA Urged to Strengthen Ozone Standards to Protect the Most Vulnerable
Air pollution threatens the health of millions of Americans, especially those who live in urban areas. EPA's current ozone standard is not adequate to protect human health. The agency should come clean and set tougher new ozone standards at the lowest level to protect the most vulnerable in our society, including children and the elderly.

Saturday, July 14, 2007
Groups Seek NAACP Help in "Burying" Toxic Racism
Representatives from the National Black Environmental Justice Network traveled to Detroit as part of a delegation calling on NAACP leaders attending the 2007 convention to take on environmental racism as a national campaign. The group conducted a "toxics tour" that took delegates past chemical plants, steel mills, automotive factories, abandoned industrial sites, and waste incinerators.

Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Burning Deadly Military Waste in Blacks Backyard
The incineration of the deadly nerve agent VX waste water in Port Arthur, Texas typifies the environmental justice challenges facing African Americans and other people of color communities detailed in the new "Toxic Wastes and Race at Twenty" report, released in March 2007. More than 1.8 million gallons of caustic VX hydrolysate waste water will be incinerated near the mostly black Carver Terrace housing project.

Wednesday, March 28, 2007
More Minorities Near Polluting Facilities Than Twenty Years Ago
A new study shows that people of color make up the majority of those living within spitting distance of the nation's commercial hazardous waste facilities.