ROOT BLACK
Surprise Me
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20m
The story of the African-Diasporic relationship to land, nature, and farming.
Featuring a family's history of sharecropping in Mississippi by weaving the past and the present and how Black farmers today are reclaiming their connection to land and growing food as a source of healing and nourishment even amid systemic disruptions to food access.
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