Fabricant, Nicole

Black Neighborhoods Matter

An Interview with Lawrence Brown on Community Trauma and Healing

by Nicole Fabricant

Summer 2018

Lawrence Brown associate professor of public health in the School of Community Health and Policy at Morgan State University. He is the grandson of sharecroppers who lived in the Mississippi Delta and a native of West Memphis, Arkansas. He is a historian, critical geographer, and political economist who sees public health from a critical, interdisciplinary perspective and advocates for holistic approaches to healing the Black communities of Baltimore. His book The Black Butterfly: Why We Must Make Black Neighborhoods Matter (Johns Hopkins Press) is forthcoming.

The Environmental Justice Movement in South Baltimore

United Workers Take on the Multiple Crises of Capitalism

by Nicole Fabricant

Winter 2018

In an era when the federal government is increasingly dominated by fossil-fuel interests that limit regulation of oil rigs and pipelines, the environmental justice movement seems to have diminished significantly.

Socialism from Below? Bolivia in an Age of Extractivism

by Bret Gustafson and Nicole Fabricant

Summer 2017

Bolivia received global attention for its anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist social movements in the twenty-first century. Best known perhaps were the Water Wars, against water privatization, in 2000 and the Gas Wars, demanding nationalization of the gas industry, in 2003. These rebellions entailed a radical rethinking of natural resource use and distribution.