Season 8

Frankie, a transgender woman and deft politician, runs for San Antonio City Council.

An ode to one man’s fight against strip mining the Appalachian mountains he loved dearly.

Jared Dawson embodies his drag persona, Lavonia Elberton, in Atlanta, Georgia.

Karen Hinton Robinson quilts the Black history lessons absent from the Texan curricula.

A Southern restaurant adjusts to newfound fame after appearing on Korean television.

Two Korean-American adoptees meet their birth mothers for the first time.

Youth suicide at a Louisiana juvenile detention center exposes a legacy of abuse.

An Alabama inmate fights to keep a jailhouse romance alive while advocating for parole.

An ode to the poetry and power of the American South’s diverse landscape and its stewards.

Hear the gospel of 83-year-old Mother Perry and her legendary music group The Branchettes.

Season 8 forefronts the complexities and unyielding vitality of love –– love for your home, your family, your God, your people, and critically,  your self.”