Shack and Mu | On the Move

Ep 10: Sankofa: Go Back to Build Forward

"Either I'm going to complain, I'm going to leave, or I'm going to do something about it." Episode 10 of Shack & Mu is in New Orleans, where culture is not decoration. I

Ep 8: Ready to Learn - Diesel, Lead Paint, and the Fight for DC's Schools

"We don't have to make those leaders. We just need to remove the barriers." Episode 8 of Shack & Mu is about political power and public schools east of the river. Dr. Mu

Ep 7: The Youth Rising - Nature as Infrastructure

"A system cannot fail those it was never meant to protect." Episode 7 of Shack & Mu comes from the Mobilize Frederick session at Hood College in Frederick, Maryland, wher

Episode 6: Preventing Mass Gentrification | Stadiums for Billionaires, Bills for Residents

"We have the money to bring our sports teams back, but not to take care of our citizens." Ep 6 of Shack & Mu heads to Southeast DC, near the old RFK site, to ask who a ci

Ep 5: Data Center Ethics | Who Really Pays for the AI Boom

"Am I supposed to pay for your data center while my own electricity bill keeps climbing?" Ep 5 of Shack & Mu lands in Glen Arden, Maryland to take on the AI data center b

Ep 4: Urban Agriculture | Food Is Health, Food Is Wealth, Food Is Power

"Food is health. Food is wealth. Food is power." Ep 4 of Shack & Mu heads to Southwest DC to talk food justice and urban agriculture with the people growing change bl

Episode 3: Government Shutdown | Money for War, Nothing for the Poor

"We got money for war but can't feed the poor." Episode 3 of Shack & Mu opens on Tupac and lands squarely on the government shutdown and who actually pays the price. D

Episode 2: Power & Pollution | Shack & Mu

"You may not believe in climate change, but climate change believes in you." In episode 2 of Shack & Mu, Dr. Sacoby Wilson and Dr. Mustafa Santiago Ali get real about dis

Feeding the Future

"A system cannot fail those it was never meant to protect." In the debut episode of Shack & Mu, Dr. Mustafa Santiago Ali and Dr. Sacoby Wilson pull back the curtain on Am

Shack & Mu Trailer

Dr. Sacoby Wilson and Dr. Mustafa Santiago Ali spent decades on the frontlines. Now they're bringing the mic to you. They've spent decades on the frontlines of environme