environmental activism detroit

Michigan’s weakened environmental laws lead activists to embrace other tactics

The 1990 election of Gov. John Engler ushered in a new era of deregulation, and, for the next several decades,…

4 years ago

‘Making a way out of no way’: Meet four Black women who helped birth Detroit’s environmental justice movement

Alice Jennings, Donele Wilkins, Theresa Landrum and Monica Lewis-Patrick persevere in the relentless fight to secure environmental justice for the…

4 years ago