Our New South Levine Museum of the New South

On the final episode of the season of 'Our New South', co-hosts Kevin Blackistone and Robert Greene II discuss environmental justice with DeLesslin "Roo" George-Warren, a Special Projects Coordinator for the Catawba Cultural Preservation Project, and Dominique Burkhardt, a senior attorney at Earthjustice.
'Our New South' is presented by the Levine Museum of the New South with thanks to the generous support of The Knight Foundation.
'Our New South' is produced by Next Chapter Podcasts, written and produced by Byron Hunter.
The editor and sound designer is Kyle Murdock.
The technical producer is Brian Douglas.
Executive producers are Franky Abbott and Jeremiah Tittle.
Special thanks to Levine team members Alexander Piñeres, Karen Sutton, and Cliff Whitfield.
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On this episode of 'Our New South', co-hosts Kevin Blackistone and Robert Greene II discuss Southern cities' approach to business and sports with Kieth Cockrell, President of Bank of America Charlotte and Head of Sports Sponsorships, Omar Jorge, CEO of Compare Foods Supermarkets and Chairman of Aurora Grocery Group, as well as Clayton Trutor, the author of Loserville: How Professional Sports Remade Atlanta-and How Atlanta Remade Professional Sports.
'Our New South' is presented by the Levine Museum of the New South with thanks to the generous support of The Knight Foundation.
'Our New South' is produced by Next Chapter Podcasts, written and produced by Byron Hunter.
The editor and sound designer is Kyle Murdock.
The technical producer is Brian Douglas.
Executive producers are Franky Abbott and Jeremiah Tittle.
Special thanks to Levine team members Alexander Piñeres, Karen Sutton, and Cliff Whitfield.
Please follow the show, rate & review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your pods.
Learn more at ncpodcasts.com/ournewsouth and museumofthenewsouth.org/digital/our-new-south-podcast

On this episode of 'Our New South', co-hosts Kevin Blackistone and Robert Greene II discuss education and equality with Congressman Bobby Scott, Mecklenburg County Commissioner Arthur Griffin, as well as social impact strategist and former Charlotte resident Decker Ngongang.
'Our New South' is presented by the Levine Museum of the New South with thanks to the generous support of The Knight Foundation.
'Our New South' is produced by Next Chapter Podcasts, written and produced by Byron Hunter.
The editor and sound designer is Kyle Murdock.
The technical producer is Brian Douglas.
Executive producers are Franky Abbott and Jeremiah Tittle.
Special thanks to Levine team members Alexander Piñeres, Karen Sutton, and Cliff Whitfield.
Please follow the show, rate & review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your pods.
Learn more at ncpodcasts.com/ournewsouth and museumofthenewsouth.org/digital/our-new-south-podcast

On this episode of 'Our New South', show hosts Kevin Blackistone and Robert Greene II celebrate Women's History Month discussing the preservation of history and culture in the South through poetry and fiction with three exceptional writers.
Jesmyn Ward, a novelist and professor of English at Tulane University, is a two-time winner of the National Book Award for Fiction, and was named a MacArthur Genius Fellow in 2017.
Beth Ann Fennelly, a professor at the University of Mississippi, was the Poet Laureate of Mississippi from 2016-2021, and in 2020, she was named an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow.
Nikky Finney, a professor at the University of South Carolina and a Chancellor of the American Academy of Poets, and was recently appointed the Executive Director of the newly launched Ernest A. Finney, Jr. Cultural Arts Center in Columbia, South Carolina, a 21st century arts and cultural center named for her father.
'Our New South' is presented by the Levine Museum of the New South with thanks to the generous support of The Knight Foundation.
'Our New South' is produced by Next Chapter Podcasts, written and produced by Byron Hunter.
The editor and sound designer is Kyle Murdock.
The technical producer is Brian Douglas.
Executive producers are Franky Abbott and Jeremiah Tittle.
Special thanks to Levine team members Alexander Piñeres, Karen Sutton, and Cliff Whitfield.
Please follow the show, rate & review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your pods.
Learn more at ncpodcasts.com/ournewsouth and museumofthenewsouth.org/digital/our-new-south-podcast

'Our New South' co-hosts Kevin Blackistone and Robert Greene II discuss the legacy of discriminatory policies which have displaced and disenfranchised communities in the South with Lori Thomas, the Executive Director of the UNC Charlotte Urban Institute and Charlotte Regional Data Trust, Mecklenburg County Commissioner Arthur Griffin, and Maurice Robinson, Assistant Professor of History/Political Science at Alabama State University.
'Our New South' is presented by the Levine Museum of the New South with thanks to the generous support of The Knight Foundation.
'Our New South' is produced by Next Chapter Podcasts, written and produced by Byron Hunter.
The editor and sound designer is Kyle Murdock.
The technical producer is Brian Douglas.
Executive producers are Franky Abbott and Jeremiah Tittle.
Special thanks to Levine team members Alexander Piñeres, Karen Sutton, and Cliff Whitfield.
Please follow the show, rate & review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your pods.
Learn more at ncpodcasts.com/ournewsouth and museumofthenewsouth.org/digital/our-new-south-podcast

On this episode of Our New South, co-hosts Kevin Blackistone and Robert Greene II discuss the power of elections and voting in the South with former South Carolina House Representative Bakari Sellers, the President & CEO of the NAACP Derrick Johnson, and Aimy Steele, Executive Director of The New North Carolina Project.
'Our New South' is presented by the Levine Museum of the New South with thanks to the generous support of The Knight Foundation.
'Our New South' is produced by Next Chapter Podcasts, written and produced by Byron Hunter.
The editor and sound designer is Kyle Murdock.
The technical producer is Brian Douglas.
Executive producers are Franky Abbott and Jeremiah Tittle.
Special thanks to Levine team members Alexander Piñeres, Karen Sutton, and Cliff Whitfield.
Please follow the show, rate & review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your pods.
Learn more at ncpodcasts.com/ournewsouth and museumofthenewsouth.org/digital/our-new-south-podcast