February 7, 2024 • 56 mins
In this episode, Our New South hosts Kevin Blackistone and Robert Greene II discuss immigration in the South with Sil Ganzò, the Founder and Executive Director of Charlotte-based non-profit ourBRIDGE for Kids, Colton Bane, the Immigrant Justice Program Director at Community Legal Center in Memphis, Tennessee, and Daniel Valdez, the Chief External Affairs Officer at Welcoming America which is based in Decatur, Georgia.
At the conclusion of the episode, we hear comments from Tressie McMillan Cottom, professor at UNC-Chapel Hill, New York Times columnist, and 2020 MacArthur Fellow. Follow her work at tressiemc.com.
'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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