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Podcast Episode: Am I My Brother’s Keeper? The Forgotten Veteran and the African American Experience
Pip: There’s a question from Genesis that has outlasted empires, denominations, and apparently most of our civic planning — “Am I my brother’s keeper?” Samp…
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Am I My Brother’s Keeper? The Forgotten Veteran and the African American Experience
Am I My Brother’s Keeper? The Forgotten Veteran and the African American Experience “And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And…
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Podcast Episode: The Record Keepers: How the Whitehead Women Wrote Black Mississippi
Pip: History has a way of remembering the loudest voices in the room — the editors, the firebrands, the names on the masthead. Our Unique…
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Podcast Episode: The “Robbery” at Hickory: Looking Again at a 1923 Account
Pip: Our Unique Stories has a way of finding the cases where the official version and the documented record don't quite line up — and…
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Podcast Episode: The Master of the Deed: How Allen Rigsby Outpaced the Crop-Lien System
Pip: There's a version of Black history in the post-Reconstruction South that ends with the crop-lien system winning. Samp, writing for Our Unique Stories, is…
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Podcast Episode: The Vanishing Class
Pip: Dust-coated record rooms aren't where most people expect to find a revolution, but here we are — Newton County, Mississippi, where the real story…
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Podcast Episode: The Merchant King of Newton: The Rise and Ruin of W.B. Richardson, Sr.
Pip: Our Unique Stories has a way of finding the people history decided to simplify — and then refusing to let them stay simple. Mara:…
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Podcast Episode: Grant, Johnson, Garfield: A Black Mississippi Family and the Politics of Hope
Pip: Three presidential names, one Black Mississippi family, and census records that quietly refuse to stay quiet — this is the kind of history that…
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Podcast Episode: The Gate and the Overgrowth: Why We Can’t Let Shubuta’s Hanging Bridge Vanish
Pip: There's a gate on a road in Mississippi that doesn't just block a path — it blocks a reckoning. And Samp, writing for Our…
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Podcast Episode: A Thin Line of Bayonets: Major Hopkins and the Politics of “Protection” in 1945
Pip: There's a moment in 1945 Mississippi where a row of armed soldiers surrounds a courthouse, and the headlines call it protection. Samp has been…
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Podcast Episode: From Poultry Shops to Courtrooms
Pip: Before Birmingham, before Selma, before the movement had a name anyone outside it recognized — some families were already in the fight. That's the…
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From Poultry Shops to Courtrooms
From Poultry Shops to Courtrooms How the Charles Family Fought Segregation Long Before the Civil Rights Era Long before the marches of the 1960s, before…
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