The question is a good one: Why write about both the “Beloved Community” and the “Land Community” in a single Substack? Aren’t social justice concerns and ecological issues separate from each other? It can certainly seem so. In my own case, I am learning about the prairie out here in the country, whereas when I go to meetings of the Black-led organizations I volunteer with—the NAACP, Juneteenth Community Association, Black History Trail of Geary County—I have to drive to our county seat, Junction City.
Starting reading and can't stop. So well put together. Thank you for this good work.