Articles by Brentin Mock
Brentin Mock is a staff writer at CityLab and Grist's former justice editor. Follow him on Twitter at @brentinmock.
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How not to celebrate MLK Day: PETA compares animal cruelty to slavery (again)
While Dr. King would likely have sympathized with PETA's cause, the group can't honor him while continuing to be clueless on issues of race.
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Scarred, spangled banner: 46 years after MLK’s death, we still struggle to broaden the movement
In his later years, Rev. King tried to broaden the civil rights movement, laying the groundwork for the environmental justice fight we see today. Sadly, it is still a struggle.
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Native sun: In the Deep South, a solar farm rises on a former cotton plantation
The entrepreneur bills the project as the largest solar farm in the country owned by an African American, and it's in North Carolina of all places.
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From Amiri to Zora: What these mountain-moving black writers can teach us about climate justice
African American literature and history hold lessons about how we weather storms -- divided or together -- and how we might survive in a chaotic future.
