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[https://www.npr.org/2020/12/03/940115722/long-time-coming-explores-birth-uninterrupted-history-of-systemic-racism-in-u-s by Gabino Iglesias 3/12/20 npr] | [https://www.npr.org/2020/12/03/940115722/long-time-coming-explores-birth-uninterrupted-history-of-systemic-racism-in-u-s by Gabino Iglesias 3/12/20 npr] | ||
From the abused, stolen bodies pressed together inside slave ships to the lynching of Emmett Till to the battered body of George Floyd pressed against the ground under a police officer's knee, Dyson uses the history of anti-blackness and violence against Black people to map out the way systemic racism was created and how it has operated, uninterrupted, since America's birth. | From the abused, stolen bodies pressed together inside slave ships to the lynching of Emmett Till to the battered body of George Floyd pressed against the ground under a police officer's knee, Dyson uses the history of anti-blackness and violence against Black people to map out the way systemic racism was created and how it has operated, uninterrupted, since America's birth. | ||
=====History of Racism Leaves Black Californians Most at Risk from Oil and Gas Drilling, New Research Shows===== | |||
[https://insideclimatenews.org/news/05042023/california-race-oil-gas-drilling/ by Liza Gross 5/4/23 Inside Climate News] | |||
Even as fossil fuel extraction declined in the state, low-income, Black and Hispanic residents continued to face disproportionate risks from living near wells, and Black residents were exposed to the most intensive operations. | |||
