Articles by Raven Rakia
Raven Rakia is a fellow at Grist.
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East Coast and Gulf Coast power grids are still not ready for a big hurricane
It's been three years since Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast. Our power grids are still awful.
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Will Obama come close to ending mass incarceration?
As President Obama calls for criminal justice reform, he continues to open and build new federal prisons in environmentally toxic areas.
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One more reason the prison industrial complex is awful: The physical distance it puts between people
The prison industrial complex makes car travel necessary, but the answer isn't to eco-shame the loved ones of incarcerated people.
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Why is lead poisoning still an issue in cities?
We know how to prevent lead exposure, but the toxic metal still lingers in many POC communities, as shown in a recent CDC study.
