[Broadcast] Celebrating Juneteenth, Farming While Black and more
Juneteenth and African Foodways / The Racial Gap of Pollution Responsibility / Redlined Real Estate & Extreme Urban Heat / Why I Wear Jordans in the Great Outdoors / Farming While Black: A Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land\t\t\t\n\nJune 19th marks the holiday known as Juneteenth, when African Americans gather to celebrate emancipation of ancestors from slavery with picnics and cook outs. The voyage from Africa isn't often on people's minds, but it is in their stomachs, by way of the foodways from across the Atlantic.\n\n\nFast-forward to today, to the farmers who are working to cultivate justice, root out racism, and find liberation on the land, by reconnecting people of color to the earth.\n\n\nAnd systemic racism has set Black Americans up for far greater exposure to pollution, and extreme heat brought by climate change. Both environmental concerns have been primarily caused and exacerbated by white Americans, yet it's Black communities that bear the brunt of the harm.\n\n\nDismantling racism, celebrating Juneteenth, and more, this week on Living on Earth from PRX.\n\n\n\nFind this week's transcript here: https://loe.org/shows/shows.html?programID=20-P13-00025. . . . \n\n\nLEARN MORE about these stories and everything in our decades of archives at loe.org. We've got audio, transcripts, links, photos and more! . . .\n\n\nPITCH IN with your tax-deductible contribution at https://loe.org/about/donate.html. Thank you for your support! . . .\n\n\nFOLLOW US and join the conversation on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. . . .\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices