Samantha Harvey

Samantha M Harvey is a writer and new mother living in New York City. Her work has appeared in Grist, Earth Island Journal, Truthout and more. She works with the Center for Diversity and the Environment and the EDGE Funders Alliance to support grassroots movements pushing for systemic change.

Langston Hughes poem

An End to Silver Linings or An Old Lesson for a New World

Recognizing that caring for the environment and dismantling racism are not silver linings but interconnected, interdependent goals in their own right is the first, beautiful step.

April 24, 2020

Reflections on Houston in a Time of Contradiction

Perhaps one gift the Trump administration has given us is the final lifting of this veil — just in case there was any lingering faith that authority still meant something and could be depended on. Now we no longer need suspect. Benefit of the doubt is over — it’s all a façade, a sham, a bully’s blow-horn silencing a people’s wisdom. So now we know. What we do with this knowledge holds the key to the future.

October 16, 2017