Afropop: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange - Season 16
Season 16
AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange rebrands as the public media home for both documentary and narrative films about the global Black experience. This season showcases real-life stories about fights for criminal and environmental justice in America, and shines a spotlight on Kenya, with two prize-winning narrative films on redemption and resilient joy.
Episodes
Commuted
In 1993, Danielle Metz was labeled a drug kingpin and sentenced to triple life in California, many miles away from New Orleans and her two children. Metz's sentence was commuted 23 years later. Now back home, she is stepping into a different reality. The film traces Metz's journey in confronting the wounds of incarceration, and to finding purpose, love and unification with her two grown children.
Supa Modo
Jo, a witty 9-year-old terminally ill girl, is taken back to her rural village of Maweni to live out the rest of her short life. Her only comfort during these dull times are her dreams of being a superhero, which prove to be something her rebellious teenage sister Mwix, overprotective mother Kathryn and entire community believe they can fulfill.
Kati Kati
When Kaleche wakes up in the middle of the wilderness, she has no idea why or how she got there. She makes her way to Kati Kati where she meets a motley crew living under the leadership of Thoma. As Kaleche strikes up a quick friendship with him, she discovers that Thoma is a very special person at this mysterious place: Kati Kati is inhabited by the souls of dead people waiting for redemption.
Freedom Hill
Princeville, NC sits atop wet, swampy land along the river. In the 1800s, the land was deemed uninhabitable by white people. After the Civil War, this indifference left it available for freed enslaved Africans. Once called ‘Freedom Hill,' it was gradually established as an all Black town. But the town has been inundated with flooding...and with each flood, a little more of the small town erodes.
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