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Art can inspire community and conversation, provide fresh insights into understanding history, and cultivate connection. It can challenge your worl...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Brenda Mallory
Interview with Brenda Mallory, Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

  • Added: Dec 01, 2022
  • Length: 21:42
Caption: Chandra Taylor
Interview with Chandra Taylor, leader of the Southern Environmental Law Center's Environmental Justice Initiative.

  • Added: Dec 01, 2022
  • Length: 24:30
Caption: Catherine Coleman Flowers
Interview with Catherine Coleman Flowers, founder of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice.

  • Added: Dec 01, 2022
  • Length: 30:39
Caption: Heather McTeer Toney
Interview with Heather McTeer Toney, Senior Adviser at Mom's Clean Air Force.

  • Added: Dec 01, 2022
  • Length: 21:32
Caption: Drew Lanham in Beidler Forest
Interview with Drew Lanham, South Carolina author, Black birder and wildlife biologist.

  • Added: Dec 01, 2022
  • Length: 33:10
Caption: Dr. Robert Bullard
Dr. Robert Bullard, widely considered the father of environmental justice, talks about the inequality of pollution and climate change.

  • Added: Dec 01, 2022
  • Length: 29:53
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A conversation about the The Smell of Money–a documentary film about environmental justice in rural communities.

  • Added: Oct 27, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
Caption: Daniel Medwed
Many followers of the highly publicized Adnan Syed case were delighted to see an innocent man set free after over two decades behind bars. But the ...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Amanda Garcia, Clyde Robinson, Justin J. Pearson and George Nolan celebrate the 1-year anniversary of the pipeline's cancellation
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
Caption: Scottie Fitzgerald at the National Civil Rights Museum
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
Caption: Attorney Scott Crosby of Burch, Porter & Johnson
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
Caption: Producers interview Sarah Houston, Executive Director of Protect Our Aquifer (on left)
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
Caption: White's Chapel church in Boxtown
"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
Caption: MLK50 reporter Carrington Tatum
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
Caption: Boxtown residents view archival photos
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
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Many people see environmental work as conservation, protecting the natural spaces throughout this world. But that is only part of the larger enviro...

Bought by KWIT


  • Added: Sep 22, 2022
  • Length: 28:37
  • Purchases: 1
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Port Arthur Texas is home base for the largest oil refinery in North America and a dizzying toxic array of fossil fuel and chemical facilities. But...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
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The Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Texas face a petrochemical and fracked gas export boom. Super-heat-charged hurricanes strike almost every year. As ...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
Caption: Maurice Bailey at Shell to Shore collection in Athens GA, Credit: Claire Reynolds
More and more coastal communities want to build sea walls to prevent catastrophic flooding because of rising sea levels. But do they work? We talk ...

Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jul 18, 2022
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 3

  • Added: Jul 13, 2022
  • Length: 50:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Teresa J Speight is a Washington DC-based gardener, garden historian, and podcaster under the name of Cottage in the Court. Teri’s new book out fr...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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Patrick Gilles talks disclaimers, the meta inside the meta, and his job as an historian.

  • Added: Jun 10, 2022
  • Length: 14:02
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We revisit a conversation with award-winning poet Geffrey Davis about his collection, "Night Angler." He also reads several poems from the collection.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Yellowstone Public Radio, WETS, KNCT FM, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: May 24, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
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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...

Bought by KTSW 89.9 and WFHB


  • Added: May 09, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 2