Racist Trees

Can a tree be racist? A few years ago, debate on this issue reached as far as Fox News. The focus was a row of tamarisk trees along a huge golf course in Palm Springs, which screened off the neighborhood of Crossley Tract. This is a historically Black neighborhood, named after its founder Lawrence Crossley, who was one of the first Black residents to settle in the largely white tourist paradise, established on indigenous land over a century ago.

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Camera

Jerry Henry

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Sara Newens

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Mina T. Son

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Sara Newens

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Jenn Harper

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Endyia Kinney-Sterns

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Mina T. Son

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Sara Newens

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Justin Baldoni

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Andrew Calof

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Steve Sarowitz

Executive Producer

John Legend

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Mike Jackson

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Ty Stiklorius

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Courtney Parker

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William Ryan Fritch

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Sara Newens

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