Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island. Today we have a three-part three

interview special episode on Houston. It's a city that everyone has watched

closely in recent weeks but that few outsiders know much about. It's a sprawling and

highly segregated metropolis where environmental injustice guided by sharp

inequality, its poor neighborhoods of color, the hardest.

My guest today are Robert Bullard, a longtime leader of the environmental justice movement,

historian Tawana Stepto, and housing advocate John Henberger.

Before we dive in, I want to thank the more than 400 people who have supported the show so far on

Patreon.com.

To keep doing these two shows a week, though though we still need more support. In fact we'd like to

get to 700 supporters by the end of the year and I think we can do it. So if you haven't already press pause and go to patreon.com

that's p at reoen.com slash the dig. If you can only do a buck a month that's great. If you can do five

even better. Ten or more comes with socialist book swag. And we have a really exciting fall lineup as I mentioned a few days ago.

Not yet finalized but includes Kaleed Bedoon, Aziz Rana, Francis Fox Piven,

Stephen Wirthheim, Brandy Jensen, Leslie Lee, Eve

Pacer, Paul Freimer, Matt Crisman, Corey Robin, Matt Carp, Noel Bridgin, Tim

Shorock, Nikil Saval, and Dorothy Roberts.

Thanks for listening and for your support.

First up, we have historian Tijuana Stepto, a professor at the University of Arizona and the author of

Houston Bound, Culture and Color in a Jim Crow City. Tawana Stepto, welcome to the dig.

Thank you for having Tawana Stepto, welcome to the dig.

Thank you for having me.

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