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AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange

Mother Suriname and The Changing Same

Season 17 Episode 1

Mother Suriname is an evocative portrayal of Suriname's history woven through one woman’s reflections on her life. And in The Changing Same, poet L. Lamar Wilson runs a marathon to lift a town’s veil of racial terror in Marianna, Florida.

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