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Podcast: Broken Ground
Episode: Season 8: Plantations to Pollution
Description: On a map, you can often spot pollution sources like a power plant, a highway, or a factory. But why were these things built where they are, and who lives next door? Answering those questions reveals a surprising truth: it’s often a short distance from yesterday’s plantations to today’s pollution. In this season of Broken Ground, we’ll journey through history, from a remote turpentine camp where enslaved laborers once toiled, through a bustling “Black Wall Street” where freed men and women once thrived, to the last green stretch of ‘Cancer Alley’ in Louisiana, where twin sisters Jo and J...