Critical Issues Lecture Series: “Race, Place and the Environment after Hurricane Katrina: Where are we now?
” Nov. 17, 4 p.m., Grand Hall Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center, 275 N. Jordan Ave., Bloomington — For more than a decade, Beverly Wright has been a leading scholar, advocate and activist in the environmental justice arena. The Deep South Center for Environmental Justice (DSCEJ) is one of the few community/university partnerships that addresses environmental and health inequities in the Lower Mississippi River Industrial Corridor, the area commonly referred to as “Cancer Alley.” Since Hurricane Katrina, much of the work at the DSCEJ has focused on research, policy, and community outreach, assistance, and education of displaced African-American residents of New Orleans. Wright has been an advocate of the safe return of residents, addressing the critical issues of health and environmental restoration and monitoring fairness as it relates to standards of clean up and will give a talk about this work. For more information, call 812-855-9271. The Dance Show takes to the Ogle Center stage
