Month: November 2021

Black Women’s Health Imperative is dedicated to advancing health equity and social justice for black women and girls through policy, advocacy, education, research, and leadership development.

In the season finale of The Coolest Show, Rev Yearwood speaks with Alanna Murrell, Special Projects Manager, Black Women’s Health Imperative. They discuss the importance of the relationship between black women & men, the role that black women have played in the history of different movements, and how climate has impacted black women’s health.

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The latest edition of Green 2.0’s annual Transparency Report Card is set to release November 17, 2021. The report includes demographic data from 67 NGOs and, for the first time, a sample of foundations. Rev Yearwood speaks with Andrés Jimenez, the executive director of Green 2.0, and Jasmine Sanders, the executive director of Our Climate. They discuss decolonizing the environmental movement, holding foundations accountable, and how data supports storytelling.

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Growing up in eastern North Carolina and attending North Carolina A&T State University, EPA Administrator Michael Regan is no stranger to the disproportionate effects of air pollution in Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities. After graduating from A&T, he landed an internship at the EPA, and as a full-circle moment, he was sworn in as the 16th Administrator March 11, 2021.

Administrator Regan sits down with Rev Yearwood to discuss the EPA’s plans for environmental justice and how his personal and professional life experiences prepared him for this moment to transform the Agency and work to protect communities of color. He aims to ensure that the EPA’s work is done through a justice and equity lens.

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Over the past year, many of us have watched the reckoning in the environmental movement unravel in Sierra Club. Rev Yearwood speaks with Ramón Cruz, the President of Sierra Club. The two discuss leading Sierra Club’s as a person of color, Puerto Rico’s energy sector, and the future of Big Green Organizations.

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