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We follow where Hazel's legacy lives in Chicago’s EJ struggles today, and commit to the mission of actualizing the legacy Hazel envisioned.
- Added: May 14, 2024
- Length: 01:08:45
As her health begins to wain, Hazel passes the baton to her daughter Cheryl who guides PCR through the treacherous waters of attacks, blackballing,...
- Added: May 14, 2024
- Length: 01:14:51
We hear Hazel become a mother of the newly coalesced global Environmental Justice movement and take EJ to the highest halls of power, while still c...
- Added: May 14, 2024
- Length: 01:03:18
We learn about and from Hazel's early fights scrapping with the power of the state, and the new possibilities for healing that she created.
- Added: May 14, 2024
- Length: 58:02
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
In 2023, Illinois’ governor signed the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act to phase out fossil fuels by 2050 and renovate the state with green infrastru...
- Added: May 07, 2024
- Length: 28:40
Baratunde Thurston describes his experiences as a Black man in nature and the influence his mother had on his positive outlook. He’s a comedian, wr...
- Added: Apr 24, 2024
- Length: 29:22
Coming up on this week's episode of The Spark Weekly.
Two Philadelphia Inquirer reporters that have investigated forever chemicals of PFAs that go...
- Added: Mar 29, 2024
- Length: 46:24
To round out Women’s History Month in style, this week we are back in conversation with Leslie Bennett, Oakland, CA based landscape designer creati...
- Added: Mar 27, 2024
- Length: 59:00
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Julian Assange Fights Last Battle to Stop UK Extradition to US; Worldwide ...
- Added: Feb 28, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
In our ongoing exploration of who gardeners are, where gardeners are, what they are growing in this world, and why that matters to all of us, I am ...
- Added: Feb 14, 2024
- Length: 59:00
The influences of Africans and Black Americans on food and agriculture is rooted in ancestral African knowledge and traditions of shared labor, wor...
- Added: Feb 05, 2024
- Length: 28:30
Camille Dungy is perhaps best known for her remarkable and award winning often environmentally focused poetry and editing of collections of environ...
- Added: Jan 31, 2024
- Length: 59:00
Jennifer Jewell
Caribbean born British-based writer and Gardener, Marchelle Farrell is the author of Uprooting: From the Caribbean to the Coun...
Bought by KZYX
- Added: Dec 12, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Climate affects everyone, but not equally. Those affected first and worst are often the same communities that suffer from housing and income inequa...
- Added: Nov 09, 2023
- Length: 58:57
Gwendolyn Wallace is a gardener, a student, a teacher, a historian, and the author of two new works of illustrated children’s literature. Joy Takes...
- Added: Nov 08, 2023
- Length: 59:00
One of medical science’s greatest paradoxes: The cancer cells that killed Henrietta Lacks revolutionized medicine -- medical care her own family co...
- Added: Oct 01, 2023
- Length: 59:14
In some parts of the world, traditional herbal remedies are the norm. When we think of natural remedies we tend to think of older generations liv...
Bought by KUNM, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Sep 11, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 5
Connecting with our ancestors. Our guest Stephanie R. Burns starts by describing her all-inclusive view of ancestors which is far vaster than our b...
- Added: Sep 04, 2023
- Length: 53:37
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews:
Extremist Supreme Court Overturns Affirmative Action, Ignoring Decades of ...
- Added: Jul 05, 2023
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 2
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews:
Opponents Gear Up to Fight GOP’s Latest Plan to Cut Social Security & Medi...
- Added: Jun 21, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
As we head into the exuberance of May and towards mother’s day celebrations here in the U.S., this week we speak again with award-winning poet, sch...
- Added: May 03, 2023
- Length: 01:17:40
Ecopoet and two-time NEA Literature Fellow Camille T Dungy discusses how history and race complicates nature writing
Bought by KECG, WSLR, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KZUM, WDCB and more
- Added: Apr 19, 2023
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 6
Many perceive philanthropy to be the exclusive domain of the super wealthy. Those people are apparently unaware of the efforts of this week's gues...
- Added: Mar 01, 2023
- Length: 29:00
