by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Feb 20, 2019 | Environmental Justice, Events, Politics of energy
Friends of Buckingham extends a warm and grateful thank you to Reverend Barber, Al Gore and Karenna Gore for accepting our ernest and urgent invitation to come to Union HIll, to draw and amplify ever widening attention to the injustices forced on the Union Hill...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Feb 20, 2019 | Environmental Justice, Events
Former vice president Al Gore and the Rev. William Barber II, left, talk with local resident Ella Rose in front of her home in Union Hill, Va. (Steve Helber/AP) BUCKINGHAM COUNTY, Va. — The little front porch seemed like a pulpit as the Rev. William Barber II outlined...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Feb 19, 2019 | Environmental Justice, Events, Politics of energy
Black History Month is a time of remembrance – to remember and celebrate African American achievements and culture, but also to remember those parts of our nation’s history that we sometimes might like to forget. “Those who cannot remember the past,” as George...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Feb 19, 2019 | Environmental Justice, Events, Politics of energy
Gov. Ralph Northam can’t escape the spotlight as former Vice President Al Gore and the Rev. William J. Barber II bring a racial and environmental crusade Tuesday to a little community in Buckingham County with a big natural gas pipeline planned at its doorstep....
