By Mary Stoudt
Ferrum College celebrated the Black History Month with various events throughout February. In the last week of this year’s celebration, Delia Heck, professor of environmental science at Ferrum, gave a presentation on environmental racism in the US.
Heck defined environmental racism as an injustice that occurs in practice and policy within a radicalized context and further explained it with numerous examples.
“We’ve known about this problem [environmental racism] but we’ve not made progress addressing it,” Heck said.
(Delia Heck, professor of environmental science at Ferrum. Photo courtesy of Ferrum College.)