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19 Jun 2018
This Juneteenth The 83rd Releases Solitary Souls

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Solitary Souls, a sonic and written documentation of mass black incarceration America, is released today via web archive site www.solitarysouls.net
02 May 2018
I AINT LYING: MISSISSIPPI FOLKTALES KICKS OFF TESTIFY MAY VIDEOS

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This May we're bringing you William Ferris' 1975 doc on the Mississippi delta's community, music and oral traditions. Along with Eartheater, DJ Slugo, SMTB, Bjork, Hank Wood, TESTIFY May is OUT NOW.
19 Jun 2017
FORMER SLAVES BREAK THEIR SILENCE ON JUNETEENTH

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Thanks to the Library of Congress, this Juneteenth, we revisit recordings of former slaves recounting their experiences, and what it was like the day they heard they were free.