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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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Podcast Episode: Podcast Episode: Remembering Newton County’s Fallen Heroes
Pip: Some histories get marble monuments. Others rest beneath weathered headstones in small church cemeteries tucked into the piney woods of rural Mississippi — and…
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Podcast Episode: The White Jesus in the Black Church
Pip: A face above the pulpit that doesn't match the man from Nazareth — and a congregation that has carried it across centuries of suffering…
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Remembering Newton County’s Fallen Heroes
Remembering Newton County’s Fallen Heroes Honoring the Soldiers Who Never Came Home from Korea and Vietnam Across the quiet cemeteries, churches, and rural communities of…
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The White Jesus in the Black Church
The White Jesus in the Black Church Colonialism, Survival, and the Face Hanging Above the Pulpit Walk into many historic Black churches across America and…
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Rooted in Difficult Soil: why Challenges Shape Our Lives
Rooted in Difficult Soil: why Challenges Shape Our Lives “Roots grow deepest in difficult soil.” At first glance, those words may sound harsh—almost offensive to…
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