Your Black News: Majora Carter Fights To Green The Ghettoes

MAJORA CARTER, one of the city’s best-known advocates for environmental justice, was sitting on a picnic table in Barretto Point Park in the South Bronx under the intense lights of an NBC film crew.

On this late September afternoon, after a month of traveling, delivering speeches, serving as host of a Sundance Channel program and a Science Channel pilot, Ms. Carter was noticeably flagging. Yet her signature feistiness was much in evidence when the producer of the documentary for which Ms. Carter was being interviewed asked her to explain why global warming affects not just polar bears but people around the globe.

Ms. Carter responded by describing air pollution in troubled urban areas like Hunts Point, the South Bronx neighborhood where she was raised and currently works.

The producer rephrased her question, in response to which Ms. Carter snapped, “I don’t do that.” [...]

In just over a decade, Ms. Carter, 42, has vaulted from working as a volunteer for what was a nascent organization called the Point Community Development Corporation and knowing almost nothing about environmental issues to becoming a nationally known advocate for environmental justice [...]

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Your Black Education: If I Was President: Black Celebrities Answer

What if our best and brightest were president? GOOD videos seeks to answer this question in a series of mini-docs with several activists and “community-minded” celebrities. What if Van Jones, Danny Glover, Majora Carter, Mos Def, MURS or Wyclef was president? To hear them tell it, the world would look entirely different. Perhaps Sen. Obama’s staff should be paying keen attention to their proposals:

Watch their campaign ads at: Your Black Education