In North Carolina, the towns of Princeville and Tarboro are separated by the Tar River. The former lies on low ground while the latter sits on high ground which is why Princeville is subject to flooding. Kofi Boone, a Professor of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning at NC State University, talks history and racialized topography in the South. PREMIERING April 22: Sitting atop swampy land along the river, Princeville, NC was deemed uninhabitable by white people but left the land available for freed enslaved Africans. Now with each flood, a little more of the all Black town, once called ‘Freedom Hill,’ erodes. A film by Resita Cox. For more: https://to.worldchannel.org/APoP_FreedomHill Watch FREEDOM HILL on YouTube 4/22: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1w5LQSzuo4 Watch FREEDOM HILL on WORLD (check your local listings), on worldchannel.org and the PBS app: https://worldchannel.org/show/afropop/ AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange is a co-production of Black Public Media and WORLD. #AfroPoP16 #LocalUSA #OurWorld #Blackstories #climatechange #flood #community #history #northcarolina #documentary #clips https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1VOZO5xUSQ1YmjwGw1Xstw https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgyeJxD05YnoDquRMNBfBqw https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy9zq9VytUs-PeC8BLT-1aQ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCY1Kp2nmxg-3Ic6lKsPcdjQ SUBSCRIBE YouTube: http://bit.ly/WC_YTSubscribe Newsletter: https://worldchannel.org/newsletter-subscription/ FOLLOW Black Public Media: Website: https://blackpublicmedia.org/afropop/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BlackPublicMedia/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blackpublicmedia/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/blkpublicmedia YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1VOZO5xUSQ1YmjwGw1Xstw FOLLOW WORLD: Website: https://worldchannel.org/show/afropop/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WORLDChannel Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/worldchannel/ X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/worldchannel TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@worldchannel AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange spotlights contemporary stories reflecting the spirit, ingenuity and resilience found among people of the African diaspora. AfroPoP recognizes that nonfiction - and Afro-futurism in particular - has provided a critical tool for Black storytellers to define present and future realities on their own terms, giving Black storytellers the necessary space for new conversations, investigations and observations. By embracing fiction and nonfiction stories, AfroPoP acknowledges that there is no distinction in the power of both genres to offer audiences deep insight into the global Black Experience. WORLD shares the best of public media in news, documentaries and programming. WORLD’s original series examine the issues and amplify the voices of those often ignored by mainstream media. The multicast 24/7 channel helps audiences understand conflicts, movements and cultures from around the globe. Its original work has won a Peabody Award, an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award, an International Documentary Association Award, a National News and Documentary Emmy Award, two Webby Awards and many others honoring diversity of content and makers. WORLD is carried by 194 member stations in markets representing 77% of US TV households. Funding for WORLD Channel is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Wyncote Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts and Artworks. WORLD is produced by GBH in partnership with WNET and is distributed by American Public Television (APT).