‘Never Let Anyone Break Your Spirit’: How an Environmental Justice Forefather Is Thinking About Our Current Moment

This interview is a collaboration between Inside Climate News and “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine. The interview is conducted by host Steve Curwood with the Rev. Ben Chavis, an environmental justice pioneer. In 1981, civil rights leader the Rev. Ben Chavis coined the phrase “environmental racism” after he was arrested for protesting North [...]