Natchez | Trailer
Preview: Season 27 Episode 10 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
A Mississippi tourist town examines its antebellum history and the stories being told.
A town built on antebellum tourism in Mississippi faces a reckoning. As homeowners, activists, and tour guides reinterpret the stories they sell, questions of race, memory, and responsibility come into focus. Natchez is a portrait of a community at a crossroads, confronting how a romanticized past shapes the present and the future.
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Natchez | Trailer
Preview: Season 27 Episode 10 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
A town built on antebellum tourism in Mississippi faces a reckoning. As homeowners, activists, and tour guides reinterpret the stories they sell, questions of race, memory, and responsibility come into focus. Natchez is a portrait of a community at a crossroads, confronting how a romanticized past shapes the present and the future.
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A Conversation with Rashaad Newsome
Our interview with interdisciplinary artist Rashaad Newsome, co-director and protagonist of Assembly and creator of Being the Digital Griot.Providing Support for PBS.org
Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- Nowhere in America is everything beautiful.
-It is here today.
-but Natchez.
- I feel like I have gone back in this lovely way.
- To a lovely world.
- I'm about to violate some Southern Pride narratives with truths and facts.
- We find an inventory of enslaved African-American men, women and children.
- If it's a bad, bad thought, don't remind them of it.
- That land has our blood in it.
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