BOWIE, Md., Oct. 9 -- Bowie State University issued the following news release:
For Victoria Boomer, a food desert was never just an empty shelf. It was a pattern she could trace across neighborhoods in Houston, a missing piece connecting environmental injustice to the health outcomes she is training to address as a social worker.
Boomer, a senior social work major at Bowie State, spent part of her summer 1,000 miles from campus as a participant in the 2026 HBCU Environmental Justice Climate Corps Summer Program, hosted at the Bullard Center for Environmental and Climate Justice at Texas Southern University. The program brought together approximately 20 students from 15 historically Black colleges and universities ...