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252. Javon Bennett (1:15:10)

Date:
2023-06-17
Main contributors:
Wu, Katie (Interviewer)
Summary:
Javon Bennett was born in 1990 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and lives in Hampton, Virginia. Beginning in 2020, he started working as an organizer for New Virginia Majority on food insecurity, environmental racism, and housing discrimination issues. His work allows him to observe how the coal piers in Norfolk and Newport News impact the daily lives of residents. Track 1: In this June 2023 testimony to the EPA, Bennett discusses how coal dust settles on windows, children’s clothing, garden beds, and cars in Lambert’s Point and the East End of Newport News. He discusses his own experience struggling to breathe during a hot summer day canvassing in Lambert’s Point, as well as the long term health impacts, including chronic asthma and bronchitis, and financial expenses that burden those he has met through his environmental justice work. He urges the EPA to visit these communities to witness these hazards first-hand. Track 2: In this oral history, Bennett reflects on his experience growing up in the 1990s in Philadelphia and how his experience navigating trash pollution and discrimination within his classroom led him to his organizing work today. After moving to Newport News when his mother started a job at the shipyard, Bennett worked on environmental justice issues and for mutual aid organizations with Tidewater Tenants Rights. This interview includes his reflections on urban violence, houselessness, food insecurity, and the persistent costs of coal dust for residents living near coal piers in the Hampton Roads region.

258. John Hessler : Video Ergo Scio - Computational Reconstruction of Ancient Ceramics and Inscriptions (1:11:58)

Date:
2021-04-08
Main contributors:
Will Rourk
Summary:
Invited speaker, John Hessler of the Library of Congress, discusses the use of artificial intelligence for the reconstruction of ceramics and inscriptions in archaeology for the Scholars' Lab speaker series, University of Virginia, Spring 2021. Recorded via Zoom web video communications interface in the presence of a live audience of 60+ attendees.

260. John Warner Papers Donation (16:53)

Date:
1976-09
Main contributors:
Warner, John W., 1927-2021, Taylor, Elizabeth, 1932-2011
Summary:
Elizabeth Taylor, who had recently married John Warner, appears at the podium and they answer questions together.