“The valley of dry bones” | S4 E12

Caroline Herring is a singer, songwriter and scholar of the South. She discusses the evolution of her music and of the song she wrote for Buried Truths.

“My world just stopped turning” | S4 E11

Buried Truths Live, Part 2: Our special event continues with a conversation between Hank and Kelley Stinson, granddaughter of the policeman who killed James Brazier.

“There will never be closure” | S4 E10

Buried Truths Live, Part I: a special evening onstage with the daughters of James Brazier, who share the pain of his loss some 60 years after their father died.

“I’m not brave like you” | S4 E9

An anonymous letter in the files of Donald Lee Hollowell captures white attitudes in the South. Some whites harbored no hatred for Black people but were too afraid to say so. What about today? And tomorrow?

A season of fire | S4 E8

Voting rights activists in Terrell are met with shootings and arson, attracting the attention of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Jackie Robinson and an angry President Kennedy.

Courtroom drama | S4 E7

Penniless and heartbroken, Hattie Bell Brazier pulls the only lever of power available to her: she sues Mathews and Cherry in federal court, setting up a tense battle between leading lawyers for and against civil rights.

The unexpected email | S4 E6

James Brazier’s family will never forget his killing, but what about the family of Weyman Cherry? His granddaughter reaches out to us after learning of his brutal racism. She accepts the truth but struggles with it. 

Light in the heart of darkness | S4 E5

An underground railroad of information smuggles the story of Terrible Terrell out of Georgia and onto the Washington Post’s front page.

The vanishing knife | S4 E4

The police said Willie Countryman had a knife, but did he?  And his girlfriend is left to wonder about his love for her.

The witnesses in the jail | S4 E3

The cops had already hurt James Brazier when they arrested him and took him to jail. But they returned late that night to finish him.