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Episode: Broken Ground
Description: Earth, Natural, Science, Government
Official website: http://brokengroundpodcast.org
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On a map, you can often spot pollution sources like a power plant, a highway, or a factory. But why were they built there - and who lives next door? Surprisingly, it’s often a short distance from yesterday’s plantations to today’s pollution. In a new season of Broken Ground, go 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 stre...