Dr. Robert R. Bullard has been selected as the 2018 Kilgore Lecturer, to be held Thursday, Nov. 14 at Emerson Unitarian Universalist Church He will speak on ”The Quest for Environmental Justice: Why Place and Race Still Matter.”

Emerson Church is located at 1900 Bering Drive and the free lecture begins at 7:30 p.m.

Held bi-annually, the Kilgore Lecture was established in 1986 through a bequest by Dr. Hartman Kilgore, a charter member of Emerson Church. It is designed to discuss topics with a moral content.

Dr. Bullard, often described as the Father of Environmental Justice, is a sociologist and a former dean of the School of Public Affairs at Texas Southern University. He has written 17 books, including Invisible Houston and The Wrong Complexion for Protection. He has extended that field of research to include climate change, and he has been named of one of 22 individuals worldwide as a “Climate Pacesetter.”

For four decades Dr. Bullard has been at the forefront of the environmental justice movement through his teaching, lectures, scholarship, research, service and activism. His Kilgore Lecture will explore how the environmental justice framework redefined environmentalism and challenged institutional racism and the dominant environmental protection paradigm.

Much of his life’s work has been devoted to uncovering the underlying assumptions that contribute to and produce unequal protection; he brings to the surface the ethical and political questions of “who gets what, when, where, why, and how much.” Bullard’s research–from toxic waste to climate vulnerability–has documented why many communities of color have the “wrong complexion for protection,” placing their inhabitants at elevated health and environmental risks.

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Dr. Robert D. Bullard has been at the forefront movement through his teaching, lectures, scholarship, research, service and activism. His lecture explores how the environment justice framework redefined environmentalism and challenged institutional racism and the dominant environmental protection paradigm. Much of his life’s work has been devoted to uncovering the underlying assumptions that contribute to and produce unequal protection and brings to the surface the ethical and political questions of “who gets what, when, where, why, and how much.” Bullard’s research–from toxic waste to climate vulnerability–has documented many communities of color have the “wrong complexion for protection,” placing their inhabitants at elevated health and environmental risks.

For four decades Dr. Robert D. Bullard has been at the forefront justice movement through his teaching, lectures, scholarship, research, service and activism. His lecture explores how the environment justice framework redefined environmentalism and challenged institutional racism and the dominant environmental protection paradigm. Much of his life’s work has been devoted to uncovering the underlying assumptions that contribute to and produce unequal protection and brings to the surface the ethical and political questions of “who gets what, when, where, why, and how much.” Bullard’s research–from toxic waste to climate vulnerability–has documented many communities of color have the “wrong complexion for protection,” placing their inhabitants at elevated health and environmental risks.

The lecture, free to the public, is supported by a bequest by Dr. Hartman Kilgore, a charter member of Emerson Church and is intended to discuss issues of public policy for a moral content.

The Kilgopre Lecture, initiated in 1986, is free to the public. The church is located at 1900 Bering Drive between Westerheimer and San Felipe