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Childhood Tragedy
Dr. Albert “Doc” Jones, founder of the National Association of Black Scuba Divers, reflects on a resonant event from his childhood where he witnessed a child drowning in a local river.
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A historian revisits the oral history of a 1920s school teacher in the Mississippi Delta.
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In 1971, one of the worst industrial tragedies in U.S. history shook rural Georgia.
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Two Korean-American adoptees meet their birth mothers for the first time.
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An Alabama inmate fights to keep a jailhouse romance alive while advocating for parole.
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An ode to the poetry and power of the American South’s diverse landscape and its stewards.
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Hear the gospel of 83-year-old Mother Perry and her legendary music group The Branchettes.
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Louis Armstrong was an icon, but for Sharon, he was the father she could never reveal.