If you walk into the average American brewery, pub, or bottle shop you might pass a few cornhole boards on your way in, hear 90s rock or alternative music piped
The story of the Ecuadorian plant scientist who may hold the key to preserving chocolate. In 1965, Ecuadorian researcher Homero Castro developed a new cacao hybrid, CCN-51, in an effort
Not enough people remember Lillian Smith. She was one of the first white southern authors to crusade against the evils of segregation. Her novel “Strange Fruit” (1944) explored an interracial
St. Helena Island is a rare gem on the South Carolina coastline. African Americans have farmed and fished here for centuries: first as plantation slaves, then as freedmen owning small
Throughout southern Appalachia mountaintop removal coal mining is on the rise, blasting and leveling highland forests and streams. The process literally changes the geology of the region. Citizens negatively impacted
Abandoned and repurposed public pools litter the Southern landscape, silent monuments to a time when white officials abruptly closed pools down, instead of allowing African Americans to swim in them.
REFUGE is a story about fear and love in the American South. A leader in a white nationalist hate group finds healing from the people he once hated – a
Caught in the policy crosshairs of the War on Drugs and the Pro-Life movement are women who become pregnant while struggling with substance abuse. This feature documentary explores the complex
Terence Blanchard has been an artistic force for over 5 decades, both creatively, and as a social activist. Early in his life, American culture told him that he would have
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