An illuminating collection of essays and interviews that explore black people’s spiritual and scientific connection to the land, water and climate. The contributors include author Alice Walker, the first Queen Mother and official spokesperson for the Gullah/Geechee Nation, Queen Quet, marine biologist Dr Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, and Savi Horne who is the executive director of the North Carolina Association of Black Lawyers’ Land Loss Prevention Project. 

In Black Earth Wisdom, they address the essential connection between nature and our survival and how runaway consumption and corporate insatiability are harming Earth and every facet of American society, engendering racial violence, food apartheid and climate injustice.