Season 5: How Memphis Beat the Odds to Stop a Pipeline
Series produced by Broken Ground
In season 5 of Broken Ground, we uncover the story of how a Black community in southwest Memphis beat the odds and defeated a crude oil pipeline.
Over the course of 7 episodes, environmental journalist Leanna First-Arai tells the epic tale of the Byhalia Connection pipeline fight in Memphis, Tennessee.
7 Pieces
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The pipeline fight comes to a surprising end. But with so many environmental injustices remaining in Memphis, the work is far from over. MCAP will ...
- Added: Sep 23, 2022
- Length: 31:05
Though the pipeline’s construction seems inevitable, MCAP’s relentless activism has begun attracting the attention of national figures, who help en...
- Added: Sep 23, 2022
- Length: 29:47
One landowner refuses to sell to the pipeline company, and soon receives pro bono legal help. Meanwhile, MCAP learns that allies aren't always who ...
- Added: Sep 23, 2022
- Length: 31:38
Reporter Carrington Tatum arrives in Memphis and begins reporting on the Byhalia pipeline. Meanwhile, MCAP realizes that calling out politicians wo...
- Added: Sep 23, 2022
- Length: 29:59
Pipeline activists dig in and discover that the Byhalia crude oil pipeline also threatens a precious 'diamond in the rough' - the Memphis Sands aq...
- Added: Sep 23, 2022
- Length: 30:26
"We took, basically, a point of least resistance." It was a throwaway line by an out-of-town pipeline representative trying to explain the company'...
- Added: Sep 23, 2022
- Length: 35:55
Residents of Boxtown in southwest Memphis are upset to learn that a high-pressure crude oil pipeline is set to plow through their community.
- Added: Sep 23, 2022
- Length: 34:29
