The Hitmaker: Bernard Purdie

Inventor of the famous “Purdie Shuffle”, the most recorded drummer of all time, Bernard Purdie’s life and legacy is explored in this feature documentary as he continues to tour internationally […]

Loving Opera Project

​A feature documentary at the intersection of creativity, history, representation and race. In Virginia, embed with a dynamic team of artists as they collaborate on a new opera about Richard […]

Seabreeze: A Legacy

The story of Seabreeze, NC. A black owned and operated beach community that thrived during the early 1900s, on the coast of North Carolina. An encapsulation of Seabreeze’s foundation, people, […]

Casual Crabbing

Crabbing brought Tia Clark back to herself—now she’s using it to help others find belonging, healing, and a deeper love for nature and each other. Casual Crabbing tells the powerful, […]

The Radical Experiment of Haiti

A Haitian-American filmmaker retraces her ancestral link to a 19th-century abolitionist who led free African Americans to Haiti in a radical pursuit of liberty, only to confront what the nation’s […]

A Southern Town At The Crossroads

It was a politically hot summer in 1986 in Durham, North Carolina, long a textile and tobacco town. Recently elected Mayor Wib Gulley faced a fierce campaign by Christian fundamentalists […]

OASIS in Atlanta

OASIS in Atlanta addresses the reasons Atlanta, GA did not experience the amount of racial unrest as in other Southern cities like Little Rock, AR; Birmingham, Al; and Augusta, GA. […]

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 […]

The Silenced Truth Podcast

When survivors of sexual abuse within the Southern Baptist Convention and other conservative Christian groups realize their calls for reform have been buried by politics and patriarchy, they take their […]

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