Why is Environmental Justice Journalism Important?

The Most Important Question · Nov 7, 2022 · 56m

It’s always worth revisiting the inarguable fact that our country was designed to be inequitable.

And while much progress has been made over time, the powers that be continued to imagine and design new ways of marginalizing, at best, Black, Brown, Asian, and Indigenous people throughout our society and economy.

But who will tell their story? And who should?

Local news has all but disappeared. Meanwhile, the communities most marginalized and least covered by mainstream publishers continue to struggle.

It’s important we help them tell their stories, not only so we are – very simply – more aware…