OTM Presents: U.S. of Anxiety's "40 Acres in Mississippi"

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🗓️ 12 February 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Our WNYC colleagues fact-check a family legend about "40 acres and a mule," and find a story about the promise and peril of the American Dream at the end of Reconstruction.

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0:39.4	Hi, Kai.
0:40.5	Hi.
0:41.4	I'm talking to Kai Wright,
0:43.6	who is the host of one of my favorite podcasts.
0:47.1	Seriously, the United States of Anx
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1:03.8	I just, you know, I got to a place in our politics where I feel like we have so little idea about the history we all are fighting over,
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