

To change the present, sometimes you have to uproot the past
November 9, 2022
1h 24m
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Sara Newens
Can a tree be racist? A few years ago, debate on this issue reached as far as Fox News. The focus was a row of tamarisk trees along a huge golf course in Palm Springs, which screened off the neighborhood of Crossley Tract. This is a historically Black neighborhood, named after its founder Lawrence Crossley, who was one of the first Black residents to settle in the largely white tourist paradise, established on indigenous land over a century ago.

Charles Metcalf Jr.
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Jean Metcalf
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Sara Newens, Joanna Sokolowski
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Trae Daniel
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Ginny Foat
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Marcus Fuller
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