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Posted By Marisa Kalil-Barrino on Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 4:59 PM click to enlarge Ayse Gursoz, courtesy of Allied Media Projects Every two weeks from the end of April to mid-June, Allied Media Projects’ Speakers Series is hosting a collection of four virtual events called Bloom. The free events include a short-film premiere, a musical performance, artist discussions, special guests, youth-empowering discussions, ancestral ceremonial practices, and various artistic collaborations. Brenda Hernandez, event manager at AMP, says its speaker series is different this year due to the pandemic. “So for this reason, we call it ‘Bloom’ because we thought it was sort of a nice visual reference of what’s going on in the network, and what’s going on in the world
President Joe Biden (left) greets John Kerry, the special presidential envoy for climate, on Jan. 27 as he arrives at the White House to speak on climate change. (Photo: Mandel Ngan/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
In February, Beverly Wright linked the legacy of slavery and the Jim Crow era with energy development. In March, President Joe Biden appointed Wright to his White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council.
Wright, the founder of the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice, is joined on the council by Jade Begay of the Indigenous Environmental Network, who co-wrote a 2018 op-ed in EcoWatch contending that climate change is “colonialism” and “cultural genocide.”