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We learn more about the fight of Black families trying to retain ownership of their inherited land – which is sometimes not just a home on a half acre, but a forest. It’s in a new documentary titled – “Family Tree” at this week’s Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham, NC. Then, the 1980s were an important — and too often overlooked — decade for Black worker resistance, according to NC State history professor Ajamu Dillahunt-Holloway, who recently wrote about the struggles faced by Schlage Lock workers in 1988. We talk with him about that history and he sticks around for a Southern Mixtape about protest songs spanning the decades.