Hilton Kelley is an environmental justice leader on the Texas Gulf Coast. He is the founder and director of Community In-Power and Development Association (https://www.cidainc.org/), a nonprofit that collects scientific data about pollution, educates residents, and fights for the right to clean air in his native Port Arthur, Texas, a refinery and chemical manufacturing town whose residents are overwhelmingly low-income people of color. In this video, Kelley recites his poem "My Toxic Reality" at Aspen Ideas: Climate in Miami.

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