What Steel Mills Teach Us About Data Centers and Environmental JusticeBaltimore's industrial history reveals a pattern that extends well beyond steel. The mills and factories that exposed Black workers to relentless danger also provided one of the few reliable pathways into the American middle class. Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement AdvertisementHis observation points toward a deeper truth. The mills had extracted enormous physical costs from Black workers, yet they had also sustained families, neighborhoods, and aspirations. Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement AdvertisementThe story of Baltimore's industrial rise is also the story of the families who built it.