S6E7: Southern Journalism with Threshold’s Jaha Nailah Avery

This is Climate Justice, Y'all!, a podcast dedicated to lifting up and centering the climate and environmental justice movement in the South. Climate Justice, Y'all In this episode, we’re joined by Jaha Nailah Avery, host and reporter of The Corridor, a Threshold series about “history, pollution, and resistance on the front lines of America’s petrochemical industry” (thresholdpodcast.org/the-corridor). Jaha recounts her experiences with The Corridor, from developing the pitch, to hearing the personal stories, to recording the seven episode series. “Each season, Threshold takes listeners on a journey into the heart of a complex environmental story—about a species, a place, an idea, a controversy, or a question—that they think deserves attention. It’s a show as much about relationships as it is about the environment. And relationships are complicated. Threshold steps into that complexity, revealing the challenges and possibilities in our relationship with the planet” (thresholdpodcast.org/about). Jaha Nailah Avery is a writer and author whose work has appeared in Essence, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Architectural Digest, and Vanity Fair. Dedicated to preserving and celebrating Black stories and history, she is the author of Those Who Saw The Sun, a collection of interviews with Jim Crow survivors, and I Heard, an illustrated poem spanning more than 400 years of Black history. The post S6E7: Southern Journalism with Threshold’s Jaha Nailah Avery appeared first on Climate Justice, Y'all.