Articles by Brentin Mock
Brentin Mock is a staff writer at CityLab and Grist's former justice editor. Follow him on Twitter at @brentinmock.
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Thoughts on slavery, environmental destruction, and the will to survive
As we wrote recently, the new film "12 Years a Slave" is a story of human and environmental abuse. Here's what we learned from your responses.
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Supreme bummer: Judges could gut key environmental justice standard
It started as a fight to save a community from the wrecking ball. But the Supreme Court may use it to take out a key provision guarding against racial discrimination instead.
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Blood on the leaves: The hidden environmental story in “12 Years a Slave”
Steve McQueen's masterful film shows how subjugation of human beings went hand-in-hand with the ravaging of the Southern landscape -- a story that still echoes today.
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Southern survival: On the Gulf Coast, a community fights for its life
In the new documentary, "Come Hell or High Water," a community founded by free blacks after the Civil War takes on developers and a dominant culture that refuses to acknowledge it even exists.
