Harlem Harlem is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan, long known as a major African-American residential, cultural, and business center. Originally a Dutch village, it was organized by a Governor and Council ordinance on March 4, 1658, whose ground breaking was on August 14, 1658, whereby it remained independent of the City of New York until 1873. Harlem
West Harlem Environmental Action West Harlem Environmental Action (also known as WEACT) is a Harlem, New York City based non-profit environmental justice organization focusing on sustainability, public health, pollution, and other urban quality of life issues. The organization was founded in 1988 to mobilize community opposition to the city's operation of the North River Sewage Treatment Plant and the planned construction of an MTA's bus depot. West_Harlem_Environmental_Action
Robert D. Bullard Robert D. Bullard is Ware Professor of Sociology and Director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University. Known as the 'Father of Environmental Justice', Bullard has been a leading campaigner against environmental racism, as well as the foremost scholar of the problem, and of the Environmental Justice Movement which sprung up in the U.S.A in the 1980s. Robert_D._Bullard