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PBS News Hour - Segments

Environmental justice advocate works to preserve her family's 100-year-old farm

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2026

⏱️ 3 minutes

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PBS News Student Reporting Labs, our journalism training program, takes us to a family farm in Upper Marlborough, Maryland, to meet Cameron Oglesby. They bring you the story of her family's struggle to hold onto their land, which inspired her to want to tell stories of environmental justice. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy

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0:00.0

Finally tonight, a story from PBS News Student Reporting Labs, our high school journalism training program.

0:07.0

They take us to a family farm in Upper Marlborough, Maryland, outside Washington, D.C. to meet Cameron Oglesby,

0:13.0

who explains how her family struggle to hold on to its land, inspired her to want to tell stories of environmental justice.

0:20.0

We're coming up on our centennial year.

0:23.6

Our farm is turning 100 in March.

0:26.6

This is what it's all about.

0:29.6

I have received so much of my own familial history just in sitting down to conversations

0:35.6

learning from my Nana. Look at me, ready.

0:39.3

Oh, you don't know when this was?

0:40.3

Yeah, we picketed in Baltimore and downtown D.C. at the capital.

0:45.3

I remember when I was a kid and my nana would be going out in the garden or she would be using her own vegetables to make things.

0:52.3

I was just absolutely obsessed with everything she was doing out here.

0:58.3

They were full of berries.

1:01.2

Land is wealth in this country,

1:02.9

and I have seen that right stripped away from so many people

1:07.2

for no other factor than they are descendant of enslaved peoples or that they are

1:12.4

indigenous. Some of the challenges the farm has dealt with include my great-great-grandfather had to

1:18.8

sell off portions of the land just to maintain it. In more recent years, my uncle and my nana

1:24.6

have contended with someone trying to build a prison next door, trying

1:29.2

to set up facilities that would generally reduce our quality of life.

1:33.5

We've been very fortunate that every attempt to do that has been thwarted in a way that allows

1:38.4

us to continue to use the property as we would like to, and as we are entitled to.

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