{"id":46173,"date":"2025-02-20t14:27:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-20t14:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.getitdoneaz.com\/?p=46173"},"modified":"2025-02-20t14:33:57","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20t14:33:57","slug":"smoke-and-mirrors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.getitdoneaz.com\/story\/smoke-and-mirrors\/","title":{"rendered":"smoke and mirrors: exposing environmental racism through art"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"\/\/www.getitdoneaz.com\/storyfest\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"\/\/www.getitdoneaz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/storyfest-badges.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45868\" style=\"width:145px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>what does it look like when children grow up in ashtrays? when their laughter is swallowed by smog, their playgrounds paved over by industries that poison the very ground beneath them? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>through visual art and poetry learn how environmental inequality isn\u2019t just smoke and mirrors, but the lived reality of black communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>click on the presentation below to view the whole story!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<script id=\"asp-embed-script\" data-zindex=\"1000000\" type=\"module\" type=\"text\/javascript\"  charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"https:\/\/new.express.adobe.com\/webpage\/static\/embed\/embed.js\"><\/script>\n            <a class=\"asp-embed-link\" href=\"https:\/\/new.express.adobe.com\/webpage\/wohy5ze4imjrx\/\" target=\"_blank\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.express.adobe.com\/webpage\/wohy5ze4imjrx\/resources?asset_id=rendition&#038;buster=1739982151368\" alt=\"smoke and mirror\" style=\"width:100%\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>poetry and artworks by tuskegee university student mykah scott, inspired by the legacy of environmental racism and a community&#8217;s determination to overcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7095,5195,4938],"tags":[],"storyfest_categories":[],"class_list":["post-46173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-justice","category-pollution"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- this site is optimized with the yoast seo plugin v24.5 - 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