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Theme Song: Muddy Waters – Louisiana Blues

01:00 Maria finally visits Htown!

14:15 Sugarland mass gravesite

16:07 Convict Labor & Mass incarceration

21:55 Sugarland trying to forget the 95 bodies

26:45 Reggie Moore: HERO

33:14 Civil Rights Tourism? That’s a thing?

40:30 Profiting off racism

43:20 White exceptionalism is not for sale!

46:50 Louisiana & criminal (in)justice

53:00 Lynching Memorials

1:04:30 At least the conversation is being had? 

SUGGESTED "READING":

Talitha L. LeFlouria, Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the South

Sarah Haley, No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity

Michael Hardy, Texas Monthly, "Blood and Sugar"

Dread Scott, Art and Photography

The Equal Justice Initiative, The National Memorial of Peace and Justice

Ken Gonzalez-Day, Erased Lynchings