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Road to Step
A University of Mississippi step team vies to defend their title at the annual Black Greek Step Show. Embodying Black southern culture, brotherhood, creativity, and determination, the Eta Beta chapter of the Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. offers a deeper look into the lives of Black students at the university and how Black culture is lived out in a predominantly white environment.
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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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Jared Dawson embodies his drag persona, Lavonia Elberton, in Atlanta, Georgia.
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An ode to one man’s fight against strip mining the Appalachian mountains he loved dearly.
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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.
