Breathes Clean Air and Drinks Clean Water with Binta Dixon

Air is breath. Water is life.

And yet, too many Black children are denied both. In this episode of Say That With Love, Dr.

Leah Austin is joined by Binta Dixon—Afrofuturist writer, community facilitator, and environmental justice advocate—for a powerful conversation on clean air, safe water, and the fight for environmental equity. Together, they explore how pollution and policy choices have shaped Black childhood—and how communities are reclaiming their right to breathe, to thrive, and to imagine new futures.

From climate justice to civic action, this episode invites us to understand environmental justice not only as resistance, but as love in action. Produced by Mike Brown in partnership with ABF Creative.

Poetry performed by Ariana Santiago.