SANTUARIO
Juana Luz Tobar Ortega came to the United States 24 years ago as an asylum seeker from Guatemala. For the last 6 years living in North Carolina, Juana has checked […]
CHITLINGS – FROM SLAVE FOOD TO SOUL FOOD
Donate During slavery, Blacks were made to eat the most undesirable parts of the pig. Today, Chitlings are considered both a delicacy AND an oppressed people’s food. In a sometimes […]
BETWEEN THE RAINS
As a prolonged drought intensifies the conflict between two pastoral tribes over grazing lands in Kenya’s northern rangelands, an orphaned shepherd boy searches for a path forward while his village […]
THE CONTENDERS
First-time filmmaker Chris Davis’ THE CONTENDERS is a documentary set on the Sea Islands of coastal South Carolina, following the lives of Charles Singleton (62) and his young family as they […]
Borders and Belonging: A portfolio of photographs from the U.S.–Mexico Border Project (2007-2016)
Borders and Belonging: A portfolio of photographs from the U.S.–Mexico border consists of 25 photographs made between 2007-2015 of the border landscape along the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo in the Rio […]
Recovery Boys
In the heart of the modern opioid epidemic, a group of young men rebuild their lives in a farming-based rehab after years of drug abuse. Attempting to break the cycle […]
GULLAH GONE: PRESERVING THE LAND, WATER AND CULTURE OF THE SEA ISLANDS
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 […]
Mossville
There once was a town called Mossville; a community rich in natural resources and history, founded by former slaves and free people of color, where neighbors took care of one […]
The Passing On
Three professions ushered Black former slaves from poverty to the American dream: preacher, teacher, and undertaker. Now, renowned embalmer James Bryant puts his faith in a new generation to continue […]
LILLIAN SMITH: BREAKING THE SILENCE
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 […]
