Abstract
A cry for environmental justice resounds with unabating fervency in twenty-first century black communities. This plea is for lasting actions, ending the presence of toxic environments and environmental practices that threaten the health of a disproportionate number of black people and other people of color at home, work, places of worship, school, and play. It is a cry that must reach our black-faith communities and mobilize them to act decisively to protect people from life-defying environmental hazards as well as to reestablish the sacredness of Mother Earth and the interdependence of humankind with her. Black-faith communities are called to “let justice roll down like a mighty stream.”