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Rural

By: WHRO Public Media
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  • Summary

  • Explore the history, culture, benefits, and challenges of rural America. Take a deep dive into previously undiscussed issues of the hollowing out of our rural, agrarian communities, and what is replacing this void, if anything. Also examine initiatives, ideas, and actions to both arrest and reverse these trends through interviews with leading scholars, authors, practitioners, and professionals.
    2022 WHRO Public Media
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Episodes
  • The Hollowing Out of Rural America

    The Hollowing Out of Rural America
    Nov 14 2022
    This episode makes the case for both the benefits of rural communities, and the devastating challenges. Digging deep into the more complex issues surrounding population loss and economic decline, this pilot contains conversations on food deserts, decline of small farms, the loss of land for African American landowners, encroachment, radical politicization of rural residents, trends for young people returning to small communities, COVID's impact, the creation of cottage industries, and the meaning of community. Subsequent episodes are one-on-one conversations with each person featured in the pilot.
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    Less than 1 minute
  • Clay Jenkinson

    Clay Jenkinson
    Nov 18 2022
    Clay Jenkinson is a scholar, author, educator and host of the public radio program The Thomas Jefferson Hour. Most recently, Clay authored a new book, The Language of Cottonwoods, Essays on the Future of North Dakota. In this episode he digs deep into the challenges of his rural native North Dakota, which are many of the same challenges in rural Virginia, rural Texas, rural Vermont and all rural areas. Clay also talks about the values and culture that we consider American values and that originated from hard work, ingenuity and the self sufficiency of rural, agrarian life.
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  • Lillian Ebony Alexander

    Lillian Ebony Alexander
    Nov 25 2022
    Lillian Ebony Alexander is Executive Director of the Black Family Land Trust (BFLT) under the auspices of the American Farmland Trust. BFLT is a nice land trust and one of the nation's only regional land trust dedicated to the preservation and protection of African-American and other historically under-served landowners land assets.
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