Freedom Hill
Princeville, NC sits atop wet, swampy land along the river. In the 1800s, the land was deemed uninhabitable by white people. After the Civil War, this indifference left it available for freed enslaved Africans. Once called ‘Freedom Hill,’ it was gradually established as an all Black town. But the town has been inundated with flooding...and with each flood, a little more of the small town erodes.
Episodes
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Freedom Hill
S16 E4 - 47m 23s
Princeville, NC sits atop wet, swampy land along the river. In the 1800s, the land was deemed uninhabitable by white people. After the Civil War, this indifference left it available for freed enslaved Africans. Once called ‘Freedom Hill,’ it was gradually established as an all Black town. But the town has been inundated with flooding...and with each flood, a little more of the small town erodes.
Extras + Features
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Neptune Frost and Tsutsue | Trailer
S17 E3 - 30s
In Neptune Frost, Neptune and Matalusa challenge the authoritarian regime in this Afrofuturist romantic musical. And Tsutsue follows two boys coping with the death of their brother in a Ghanaian town situated by an oceanside landfill.
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Tongo Saa | Trailer
S17 E2 - 30s
Tongo Saa is set in Kinshasa, the capital city of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the government's plans to build a large hydroelectric power plant leaves many residents in darkness and insecurity. The uneven distribution of electricity causes many locals to navigate life after sunset using torches and other means to provide their own infrastructure and security amid constant violence.
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Mother Suriname and The Changing Same | Trailer
S17 E1 - 30s
Mother Suriname is an evocative portrayal of Suriname's history woven through one woman’s reflections on her life. And in The Changing Same, poet L. Lamar Wilson runs a marathon to lift a town’s veil of racial terror in Marianna, Florida.
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