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REEL SOUTH
Alabama Bound
Season 3
Episode 2
In the months leading up to the Supreme Court decision on marriage equality, gay families in Alabama were busy fighting discriminatory state laws. Alabama Bound chronicles the roller-coaster ride for gay rights in the South, and a resilient community that lives with both frustration and hope in a place where the line between church and state is often blurred.
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A historian revisits the oral history of a 1920s school teacher in the Mississippi Delta.
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Jared Dawson embodies his drag persona, Lavonia Elberton, in Atlanta, Georgia.
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An ode to the poetry and power of the American South’s diverse landscape and its stewards.
