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High school student and poet, Chasity Hunter, experienced intense flooding in her New Orleans neighborhood during both Hurricane Katrina and recent summer rainstorms. Inspired to find out how safe her city really is, she investigates her city's infrastructure and questions water experts, finding her own voice along the way.
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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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An ode to one man’s fight against strip mining the Appalachian mountains he loved dearly.
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Jared Dawson embodies his drag persona, Lavonia Elberton, in Atlanta, 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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Louis Armstrong was an icon, but for Sharon, he was the father she could never reveal.