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A Black Utopia In North Carolina

Far Flung with Saleem Reshamwala by TED

Dec 9, 202056:51Society & Culture

“I thought I'd come to paradise,” said Jane Ball Groom upon arriving in Soul City, North Carolina. It wasn’t amenities or location that made Soul City paradise, but the promise of what it could be: a city built by Black...

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A Black Utopia In North Carolina is an episode from Far Flung with Saleem Reshamwala by TED. “I thought I'd come to paradise,” said Jane Ball Groom upon arriving in Soul City, North Carolina. It wasn’t amenities or location that made Soul C...

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Published Dec 9, 2020, 56:51 long, audio available.

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