Coronavirus is not just a health crisis — it’s an environmental justice crisis

Grist
By Yvette CabreraApr 24, 2020, 3:59 am154 pts
More than 50 years ago, despite a storm that was brewing in Memphis, an overflow crowd of hundreds gathered to hear a rousing speech from Martin Luther King, Jr., who encouraged the city’s striking sanitation workers not to give up their struggle for safer working conditions and better wages. “Nothing would…

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