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TheGrio's 100: Robert Bullard, Father of environmental justice inspires next generation

By Brentin Mock

5:00 AM on 02/10/2010

TheGrio's 100 - For three decades Robert Bullard's been publishing reports and books that have spelled out precisely where environmental dangers lay...
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TheGrio's 100: Charles F. Bolden, Administrator of NASA, astronaut

By Brentin Mock

5:00 AM on 02/10/2010

TheGrio's 100 - Charles Bolden is the first African-American head of NASA...
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TheGrio's 100: Derrick Pitts, a star among the stars

By Brentin Mock

1:00 PM on 02/08/2010

TheGrio's 100 - Pitts brings a certain charisma to an otherwise dark, down-tempo discipline...
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TheGrio's 100: Shelton Johnson, park ranger bringing kids to nature

By Brentin Mock

8:00 AM on 02/06/2010

TheGrio's 100 - Shelton Johnson has worked in National Park service for more than 20 years. He did not grow up in a small town in the mountains, but in industrial Detroit...
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TheGrio's 100: Tony Hansberry, whiz-kid considered 'the next Charles Drew'

By Brentin Mock

12:00 PM on 02/03/2010

TheGrio's 100 - People in his Jacksonville, Florida home are calling him the "next Charles Drew"...
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TheGrio's 100: Lisa Jackson, Washington's lead environmentalist

By Brentin Mock

10:00 AM on 02/01/2010

TheGrio's 100 - Jackson's leadership comes at a pivotal time for the EPA in the nation's policymaking...
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TheGrio's 100: James McLurkin, Engineer forges fleet of robots

By Brentin Mock

5:01 AM on 02/01/2010

The Grio's 100 - James McLurkin built his first robot in 1988. Today he produces software that can move a whole community of robots...
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TheGrio's 100: Jerome Ringo, proving blacks can go green

By Brentin Mock

5:00 AM on 02/01/2010

TheGrio's 100 - He's worked staunchly as an environmental justice advocate fighting for safer work conditions...
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Environmental effects on people of color need Obama's attention

By Brentin Mock

9:24 AM on 12/10/2009

OPINION - If President Obama is supposed to be more sympathetic to special interests - including the impact of climate change on black people - because of his skin tone and ancestry, he's not showing any signs.
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Pittsburgh protesters aren't looking for another Seattle

By Brentin Mock

8:55 AM on 09/24/2009

There have been concerns that more militant outfits are seeking the kind of carnage witnessed in Seattle, and the city government has acted cautiously...
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Van Jones' resignation shouldn't change future of green jobs

By Brentin Mock

8:22 AM on 09/08/2009

OPINION - The resignation of Van Jones does not have to equal the end of green jobs for the poor.
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Drunk on beer summit, Urban League forgets real problems

By Brentin Mock

11:19 AM on 07/31/2009

If you want to know the condition of African Americans these days, get in a tangle with a police officer. That was the prevailing point of discussion yesterday, at the National Urban League's "State of Black America" forum in Chicago...
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Black organizations at odds over climate bill

By Brentin Mock

11:40 AM on 07/20/2009

Last week's brouhaha between Harry Alford, National Black Chamber of Commerce [NBCC] president, and Sen. Barbara Boxer, chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works committee, dispelled any assumptions that all African Americans are on board for the new clean energy bill going through Congress...
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Palin should spend less energy on energy

By Brentin Mock

7:43 AM on 07/18/2009

(AP Photo/The Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman, Robert DeBerry) Alaska Governor Sarah Palin announced on July 3 that she was resigning her seat and since then people have wondered what her new focus would be. Earlier this week, she revealed in a Washington Post op-ed that her focus would be on advocating...
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New Orleans seeing a drought of stimulus funds

By Brentin Mock

8:42 AM on 07/06/2009

Four years after Hurricane Katrina, recovery for New Orleans and many places in the Gulf Coast has not happened for many families devastated by the deadly storm. Recent articles in the New York Times and in Brad Pitt-focused magazine cover stories would have us believe that all is well and...
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Is the climate bill good for black America?

By Brentin Mock

9:15 AM on 07/01/2009

Last Friday, the American Climate and Energy Security [ACES] Act sponsored by Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) passed through the House bringing the U.S. one step closer to legislation that addresses our global warming and energy problems. The bill passed by a slim margin, 219 to 212...
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TheGrio's 100: Beverly Wright, Bringing environmental justice to post-Katrina New Orleans

By Brentin Mock

4:55 PM on 02/01/2009

TheGrio's 100 - New Orleans would not be the same, and many black families would not be safely back at their homes, if not for the efforts of Dr. Beverly Wright...
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