The Nostalgia Bone (2021)
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FXIS Kendrid - Part 1, Mother's Milk
Lane Captain Levinson traces the history of nostalgia from its origins as an illness to a defining emotion of our time. Nostalgia takes us to that warm, reliable place of before but this emotion has lived many lives and was once a deadly disease. This message comes from NPR sponsor, FXIS Kendrid, based on Octavia E. Butler's celebrated and critically acclaimed novel.FXIS Kendrid sensors on Dana James, a young black woman, and aspiring writer. She emerges at a 19th century plantation and is confronted with secrets she never knew ran through her blood. All episodes streaming December 13th only on Hulu.
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