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Althea

Director Rex Miller began searching for Althea Gibson’s story because of a photograph that hung on the wall of his childhood bedroom. Taken in 1960, it shows two brown-skinned women,

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Socks on Fire

When the matriarch of a large Southern family passed without a written will, Bo McGuire returns home to Hokes Bluff, Alabama, to document the mounting standoff. A poet composes a

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Pass It On

Pass It On reflects on Reynolds Price’s 50 years of teaching English literature and writing at Duke University. Through the eyes of colleagues, former students, his peers, and with Price’s own

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Seven Acres and a Church

Seven Acres and a Church is an urgent call to action following Ms. Georgia Benton, a community matriarch, as she leads the fight to preserve First Bryan Baptist Church—the oldest continuous

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An elderly man stares out the window of his home near Tokyo, Japan.

A HELLO STORY

A HELLO STORY is a personal narrative about the biracial Davison family’s journey from North Carolina to Japan to care for Yasuo Mochizuki, their aging father, father-in-law and grandfather. Through

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Signs & Wonders

In a world that too often overlooks race and disability in the same breath, Valerie McMillan, a Black interpreter and only hearing child of deaf adults (OHCODA), confronts a legacy

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Matt Boydston, 4th generation mill worker. Canton, NC.

Papertown

When the paper mill that sustained a small Appalachian town for over a century shuts down, its people face not only economic collapse, but a deeper question—who are they without

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