2024 stories, videos, podcasts and panel discussions about Warren County and the PCB landfill
Duke Today: Rev. Benjamin Chavis Jr. on Building Community with Equity and Environmental Justice
Atmos: Nourishing Roots in the Birthplace of Environmental Justice
2023 stories, videos, podcasts and panel discusions about Warren County and the PCB landfill
Activists Reflect on Exhibit Commerating Their Historic Environmental Justice Protest
NPR Throughline – How everyday people started a movement that’s shaping climate action to this day
Duke University – What is Environmental Justice?
The Christian Century – Honoring Mothers of the Environmental Justice Movement
Smithsonian Sidedoor Podcast – Building a Movement
The Warren Record – Update on PCB levels in soil
Earth in Color – A conversation with Rev. Dr. Benjamin Chavis about Warren County
PBS News Hour – EPA Awards $177 Million to Environmental Justice Groups
2023-24 exibits with photos of the North Carolina Protest
Anacostia Community Museum (Smithsonian)
Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University
Sept/Oct. 2022 stories about the 40th Warren County Protest Anniversary
North Carolina Health News.Org
Duke Today – story about Jenny Labalme
Duke Today — story about Rev. Dr. Benjamin Chavis and Catherine Coleman Flowers
Sept. 2022 videos, panel discussions and exhibits about the 40th Warren County Protest Anniversary
NC Health News – Health Care Half Hour. NC’s role in birthing the environmental justice movement
UNC Wilson Library Video — Birth of the Environmental Justice Movement in Five Images
UNC Chapel Hill — Panel Discussion and Exhibit Reception Sept. 15, 2022. Video courtesy of The Southern Documentary Project at University of Mississippi
UNC – Chapel Hill — Abbreviated Online Exhibit of the Warren County Protests
Sept. & Oct. 2022 stories about $3 Billion in EPA funds slated for pollution-affected communities
Background and previous articles, books and videos specifically about the protest in Warren County
WBTV – News – 1982 TV footage, possibly from the first day, of the protest
Dumping On Warren County – 1988, by Jenny Labalme. Story appeared in Environmental Politics, Lessons from the Grassroots, published by the Institute for Southern Studies and edited by Bob Hall. A comprehensive article that explores the history behind the landfill and how local citizens fought back. Republished online September 2022
PCB Site Declared Clean – 2004, The Warren Record
Warren County: Real People, Real Stories – 2006, UNC’s Exchange Project
Transforming Environmentalism – 2007, by Eileen McCurty. A definitive scholarly book on Warren County, PCBs and the Origins of Environmental Justice
Warren County Library Exhibit Commemorates PCB Protests– 2012, WRAL-TV
WRAL – TV Thirty-Year Anniversary of the Protests – 2012
Warren County Environmental Action Team – link to numerous videos ab†out the protest
Warren County PCB Protest 30th Anniversary Celebration – 2012 Scientist Charles Lee speaks
Warren County Documentary – 2018 by Michael Pearce
Warren County North Carolina, Birth of the Environmental Justice Movement – panel discussion hosted by the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences.
The Warren Record – 2021 Plans about the 40th Anniversary protest commemoration
Matter of Fact with Soledad O’Brien – 2021, How a North Carolina Community Came Together to Fight Environmental Racism
North Carolina Black Alliance Environmental Injustice and Healthcare Summit: Grounded in Justice, Rooted in Wellness. Keynote Address by Shauna Williams – August 12, 2022
Books, local and national broadcasts about the environmental justice movement
Environmental Justice in North America — 2024 Edited by Paul C. Rosier
Environmental Justice in Post-War America – 2018 Edited by Christopher W. Wells
A Brief History of the Environmental Justice Movement – 2018 Pro Publica
American Masters PBS – 2014 A brief, 2-minute clip with interviews and some footage from the 1982 protest in Warren County.
Environmental Justice: Opposing a Toxic Waste Landfill | PBS LearningMedia – 2010, WGBH-TV Boston (PBS). A 4½-minute long educational program about Warren County’s protest that features Jenny Labalme’s photos and interviews with the Rev. Ben Chavis and Robert D. Bullard.
Where We Live Work and Play, The Environmental Justice Movement and the Struggle for a New Environmentalism – 2000 by Patrick Novotny
Dumping in Dixie – 1990 by Robert D. Bullard, who often is referred to as the Father of Environmental Justice. The book follows the efforts of five Black communities, empowered by the civil rights movement, to link environmentalism with issues of social justice.
More recent articles about the Warren County Protests and their place historically
National Public Radio – 2021 Hope and Skepticism as Biden Promises to Address Environmental Racism
The Washington Post – 2021 ‘This is Environmental Racism’ How a protest in a Black N.C. farming town sparked a national movement.
Warren County and North Carolina environmental justice groups
Warren County Environmental Action Team
North Carolina Environmental Justice Network
Churches and their involvement in the protest
A selection of Universities and Colleges with Environmental Justice Programs that have connections to Warren County, N.C.
Duke University — Just Environments at The Kenan Institute of Ethics
University of Michigan – 2020 Environmental Justice Summit at Leads to Four Published Articles
Yale University — Yale Center for Environmental Justice
Environmental groups with links to the Warren County Protest
The Natural Resources Defense Council – The Environmental Justice Movement
Sierra Club – People and Justice
Government links
US Department of Energy – History of Environmental Justice
US Environmental Protection Agency – Environmental Justice
US Department of Interior – Environmental Justice
The White House – Environmental Justice