Trailer | Razing Liberty Square
Preview: Season 25 Episode 9 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Miami's Liberty City public housing projects become ground zero for climate gentrification
Liberty City, Miami, is home to one of the oldest segregated public housing projects in the United States. Now with rising sea levels, the neighborhood’s higher ground has become something else: real estate gold.
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Trailer | Razing Liberty Square
Preview: Season 25 Episode 9 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Liberty City, Miami, is home to one of the oldest segregated public housing projects in the United States. Now with rising sea levels, the neighborhood’s higher ground has become something else: real estate gold.
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A Conversation with Rashaad Newsome
Our interview with interdisciplinary artist Rashaad Newsome, co-director and protagonist of Assembly and creator of Being the Digital Griot.Providing Support for PBS.org
Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipSo climate gentrification is happening, and Miami is being affected in the worst way.
- There's a change coming to this area.
- They're going to come take Liberty City because we don't flood.
- All the people that are planning this don't live in this community.
- Liberty Square is the heart.
[Children singing] Happy Birthday!
- And when you destroy the heart, you destroy the people.
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