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Editor’s Notes: Long Overdue

If you can keep your cynicism in check, corporate displays of support for Black Lives Matter can seem admirable, sometimes even moving. When done authentically, companies are holding a mirror to themselves, deciding that they are not doing enough to address racial injustice, and committing to make change. Some of these vows are genuine and

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Pennsylvania residents say Mariner East 2 pipeline project is contaminating their drinking water

Photography courtesy Lora Snyder Troubled Waters By Siobhan Gleason On February 12, 2018, Delaware County residents along the Mariner East 2 pipeline route received a letter from Sunoco Pipeline LP, a subsidiary of Energy Transfer Operating LP, about a groundwater problem. Sunoco had punctured a local aquifer that residents of Edgmont Township relied on for

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We Don’t Farm Because It’s Trendy. Farming is not new to Black people. We farm as resistance, for healing and sovereignty

Author Ashley Gripper (right) with fellow farmers Errol Chichester (left) and Tahirah Chichester (center). Photograph By Khaliah D. Pitts The Blacker The Berry By Ashley Gripper For more than 150 years, from the rural South to northern cities, Black people have used farming to build self-determined communities and resist oppressive structures that tear them down. 

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