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We go to the roots of the land where Altgeld Gardens sits and where Hazel's legacy lives, digging through the layers of indigenous, Black liberatio...
- Added: May 14, 2024
- Length: 43:53
We begin our story–the story of Hazel Johnson, of Altgeld Gardens, of Environmental Justice, and of how we each fit into the fight to change our li...
- Added: May 14, 2024
- Length: 43:27
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
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
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
- Added: Jul 13, 2022
- Length: 50:30
- Purchases: 1
Urban beekeeping is forging new paths in Detroit. Nicole Lindsey and Timothy Paule Jackson of Detroit Hives are generating a lot of buzz working to...
- Added: May 09, 2022
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Jun 11, 2021
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
There's a lot of farmland about to change hands. We can make sure it's distributed fairly to good stewards.
- Added: Mar 10, 2021
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 4
Norfolk, Virginia's waters are rising fast, and its land is sinking. The city's plans to meet this climate change challenge could be a blueprint fo...
- Added: Jul 15, 2020
- Length: 33:44
Birds - André Wallace is a City Council Member at Mount Vernon, New York. He is also the owner of a construction company, CDCD, LLC.
- Added: Jul 06, 2020
- Length: 02:26
Explore what it looks like to fragment a forest, to drain a river, and to make a city unsafe for the humans that live there. Travel from the Black ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Jun 18, 2020
- Length: 44:41
- Purchases: 2
Episode 2. Spoon talks about a dog rescue program that took place inside Lancaster State Prison. He talked to Common the rapper, Matthew visits a s...
- Added: Apr 27, 2020
- Length: 20:00
Diana Tootle, 58, lives in Morehead City, North Carolina. Tootle speaks to the intersection between Hurricane Florence and COVID-19 in her historic...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Mar 29, 2020
- Length: 02:22
- Purchases: 1
Melvin Dunn, 41, is a shrimper in Beaufort, North Carolina. Dunn lost a shrimp season with Hurricane Dorian last September and now faces further im...
Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif.
- Added: Mar 29, 2020
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
In this episode, two women tell us about losing their homes and communities and what they're doing about it.
- Added: Mar 12, 2020
- Length: 17:47
When Cedric saw little being done to help one community in Wilmington during Hurricane Florence, he had to act fast.
Bought by WOUB
- Added: Mar 12, 2020
- Length: 09:27
- Purchases: 1
Gloria's home was lost in not one but two hurricanes. This is her story.
- Added: Feb 26, 2020
- Length: 08:50
Born and raised in Compton. It was big to come out here and see something different.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 10, 2019
- Length: 04:14
- Purchases: 1
An elderly couple steps up to defend their farm and neighbors when pipeline developers won’t back down from a risky, environmentally damaging proje...
- Added: Jul 01, 2019
- Length: 27:53
It’s not surprising that many of the medicines we use today are derived from plants. The surprising part is how similar the molecular components of...
- Added: Oct 20, 2016
- Length: 35:36
The residents of Mossville, Louisiana have long prized self-sufficiency. Founded by freed slaves in the 1700s, Mossville was a place where everyone...
Bought by KVLU
- Added: May 19, 2016
- Length: 31:37
- Purchases: 1
Minnesota is known as the land of 10,000 lakes. And yet for people of color who enjoy the outdoors, exploring Minnesota's wilderness spaces can be ...
- Added: Nov 04, 2014
- Length: 05:16
