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The State Of Black Atlanta: Exploding The Myth Of Black Mecca, Robert D. Bullard, Glenn S. Johnson, Angel O. Torres
The State Of Black Atlanta: Exploding The Myth Of Black Mecca, Robert D. Bullard, Glenn S. Johnson, Angel O. Torres
Robert D Bullard
The State of Black Atlanta Summit 2010 was held this past Saturday February 20 on the campus of Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta, GA. The one-day Summit was convened by the Environmental Justice Resource Center to coincide with the Black History Month celebration and was part of the center’s Smart Growth and Sustainable Communities Initiative (SGSCI) funded by a grant from the Ford Foundation. The Summit organizers commissioned working papers from top Atlanta leaders in academic, public health, business, media, and local community based organizations with the goal of impacting public sector policies around health, environmental justice, civil rights and …