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Little Satchmo | The Secret Child Now Having a Secret Child

Looking back on her teenage years, Sharon, the secret daughter of Louis Armstrong understands her place amid staggering statistics of children raised in single-parent homes.

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Cash Crop
10:43
A Black farmer in Virginia wrestles with tradition and the changing needs of the economy.
Black Ag
8:54
A Black scientist in Arkansas guides farmers through agricultural challenges.
Boca Chica
13:53
With eyes toward space, Texas restricts access to an otherworldly beach.
Echoes of the Rio
8:06
Indigenous and Mexican ancestors explore the history and disappearance of the Rio Grande.
Mothertown
11:29
How the Eastern Band of Cherokee reclaimed their land.
For the Record
36:14
Out of time and money, a newspaper editor fights to keep her paper alive in rural Texas.
The Only Doctor
54:55
The only doctor in Clay County Georgia must confront the possibility of losing her clinic.
Finding Us
13:00
Families torn apart by Georgetown’s sale of enslaved people reunite six generations later.
Fallout
17:46
Members of a rural Virginia town are exposed to contamination from a nearby Army plant.
In Exile
11:24
Marshallese migrants in Arkansas explore the US nuclear legacy.
It’s in the Voices
16:53
A historian revisits the oral history of a 1920s school teacher in the Mississippi Delta.
Veritas
55:39
63 years after the Bay of Pigs invasion, the surviving dissidents tell the fuller story.
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