Racist Trees

To change the present, sometimes you have to uproot the past

84 mins
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.

Sara Newens

Director

Mina T. Son

Director

Sara Newens

Producer

Mina T. Son

Producer

Endyia Kinney-Sterns

Executive Producer

Steve Sarowitz

Executive Producer

Justin Baldoni

Co-Producer

Andrew Calof

Co-Producer

Jerry Henry

Director of Photography

John Legend

Executive Producer

Mike Jackson

Executive Producer

Ty Stiklorius

Executive Producer

Courtney Parker

Co-Executive Producer

William Ryan Fritch

Original Music Composer

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