Caucus Productions is a collection of original music, films, and podcasts that amplify culture, community, and real change. Think of Caucus Productions as your gateway to powerful storytelling and creative expression, showcasing Black, Brown, and Indigenous voices and visionary artistry across the climate justice movement. Dive into thought-provoking content that inspires action on climate, racial, and economic justice—all through the lens of hip hop culture.
Narrated by Emmy Award Winner, Wanda Sykes, “Underwater Projects” honors and sheds light on how the climate crisis affects communities of color and offers solutions that achieve environmental justice now. But more importantly, this powerful story illustrates how your vote matters every year – regardless who is in office. Join Hip Hop Caucus to discover and discuss what is at stake for our communities, inspiring ways people are responding, and how we can take action together.
Everyday, the oil, gas and petrochemical industry writes off Black, brown and Indigenous communities as ‘sacrifice zones’. The industry violates laws with impunity and rationalizes the unconscionable – they dump cancer-causing pollution into communities of color and try to cover it up.
Big Oil’s Last Lifeline takes us to the frontlines of the U.S.’s epicenters for petrochemical production: West Virginia, Houston, and along the Mississippi River in Louisiana.
The promise held by greening America’s cities presents the opportunity to fight the climate crisis while also revitalizing communities of color struggling from decades of economic and environmental despair. “Green the Block: Unpaving the Concrete Jungle” takes place in Los Angeles, one of America’s most polluted cities. It engages on environmental justice issues and solutions for communities of color to own their land, take care of it, and leave it in a better place for future generations.
Ain’t Your Mama’s Heat Wave is a stand-up comedy special from the frontlines of the climate crisis. It’s filmed in the St. Paul’s district of Norfolk, VA, a Black public housing community that is being redeveloped because of climate flooding, sea level rise, and a legacy of racist urban policies. The city of Norfolk, which is below sea level and sinking, is grappling with the climate crisis and racial injustice.
Four Black millennial stand-up comedians take the stage to “make the climate crisis funny” in front of a St. Paul’s audience who are at risk for a Hurricane Katrina-like disaster and who are currently being displaced from their homes. Things are not so funny when it’s clear that climate threats can mean life or death. But, in the Black American tradition of struggle, resilience, and triumph in the face of existential threat, the joy of comedy, music, and art informs and empowers.
Season 6 | Episode 19
Season 6 | Episode 18
Season 6 | Episode 17
Season 6 | Episode 16
Season 6 | Episode 15
Episode 5
Episode 2
Episode 1
A diverse group of leading recording artists, music producers, and songwriters came together to create a music project entitled the album HOME (Heal Our Mother Earth). Artists featured on the album include: Common, NE-YO, Elle Varner, Karmin, Raheem DeVaughn, Crystal Waters, and more. The project features eleven tracks and was released in fall of 2014 for the People’s Climate March when millions of people took to the streets of September that year to demand world leaders take action on climate.
Our culture is our power. For centuries, Black heroes and artists have utilized the power of art, music, and creation to fortify our brilliance, resilience, and power. Which is why we were proud to release “Speak Up,” our collaboration with Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter and producer Eric Bellinger. Speak Up reminds us that our voice matters. Fear is how they control us, and in an age with so much to be afraid of, Speak Up is our anthem to believe and to hope.
Episode 5
Episode 2
Episode 1
Season 6 | Episode 19
Season 6 | Episode 18
Season 6 | Episode 17
Season 6 | Episode 16
Season 6 | Episode 15
