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Podcast: Black History Year
Episode: What āSinnersā Gets Right (And Wrong) About the Black South
Description: This isnāt a film podcast. But with the feature filmĀ SinnersĀ now available at home, we couldnāt help but unpack its bold take on Southern horror, the moral weight of unspoken histories, and what it meansāfor the cultureāto set a story like this in Mississippi.
In this special episode of Black History Year, Grammy-winning blues musician and actor Chris Thomas King returns, joining scholar, writer, and BHY producer Dr. Leslie Grover to discuss what the film gets right, what it gets wrong, and the blues haunting every frame.