Earth, Natural, Science, Government
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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 stretch of ‘Cancer Alley’ in Louisiana, where twin sisters Jo and Joy Banner are fighting for justice for descendants of the enslaved. Together, these stories uncover how the legacy of slavery meets today's environmental injustices.
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