John L. Hanson Jr. speaks with Brittney Martin, co-host and executive producer of Sugar Land.
Brittney Martin and Naomi Reed are the hosts of"Sugar Land,” an investigative podcast from The Texas Newsroom.
On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. speaks with Brittney Martin, co-host, and executive producer of Sugar Land. Sugar Land is an eight-episode podcast that explores how the discovery of a cemetery forced the city to confront its history, and the 95 African American individuals unearthed during a construction in Sugar Land, Texas, 30 miles southwest of Houston.
Martin talks about how the podcast came about, how the grave site was discovered, what was discovered in Sugar Land, the convict leasing program, and why this was a hidden secret.
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