Overlooked

Explores a historic town built by formerly enslaved people after the Civil War that was taken over by South African apartheid-era petrochemical company Sasol and destroyed by industry.

Looks at one of the largest hazardous waste handlers in North America, who burned millions of pounds of munitions in a small, low-income and predominantly Black town.

James Scott was 24 years old when he was convicted of flooding over 14,000 acres of farmland under an obscure law from 1979 during the Great Midwestern Floods of 1993, and sentenced to life in prison.