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REEL SOUTH
Road to Step
A University of Mississippi step team vies to defend their title at the annual Black Greek Step Show. Embodying Black southern culture, brotherhood, creativity, and determination, the Eta Beta chapter of the Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. offers a deeper look into the lives of Black students at the university and how Black culture is lived out in a predominantly white environment.
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17:18
An ode to one man’s fight against strip mining the Appalachian mountains he loved dearly.
14:26
Jared Dawson embodies his drag persona, Lavonia Elberton, in Atlanta, Georgia.
30:26
A Southern restaurant adjusts to newfound fame after appearing on Korean television.
24:04
Two Korean-American adoptees meet their birth mothers for the first time.
27:09
An Alabama inmate fights to keep a jailhouse romance alive while advocating for parole.
27:32
Youth suicide at a Louisiana juvenile detention center exposes a legacy of abuse.
56:15
An ode to the poetry and power of the American South’s diverse landscape and its stewards.
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26:16
Three Haitian bathroom attendants hold court in Miami nightclubs, even during a pandemic.
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21:55
A Florida woman battles media scrutiny and public outrage to save her pet alligator.
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56:06
Four spirited teenage sisters languish at home during the pandemic of 2020.
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56:35
Just outside Nashville, a mortician creates the state’s first, natural burial ground.
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55:46
Louis Armstrong was an icon, but for Sharon, he was the father she could never reveal.