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Truth Be Told: Virginia

Truth Be Told: Virginia

By: Heard Productions Nichole Hill Jackie Glass Hannah Sobol
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 Site-specific short stories from your Black neighbors.2023-Present Truth Be Told, Heard Productions Social Sciences World
Episodes
  • ERT: Breathe Other Air

    ERT: Breathe Other Air
    Apr 3 2026

    What happens when love tells you to leave? From Pittsburgh to Norfolk, guided by an elder's wisdom, an HBCU that chose her, and a city that helped raise her into who she is today, Charlette found her home.

    heardofem.com

    elizabethrivertrail.org

    nps.gov/locations/chesapeakebaywatershed/grants.htm

    virginiahumanities.org
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    15 mins
  • ERT: Take Me to Church

    ERT: Take Me to Church
    Apr 3 2026

    Gathering has been a cornerstone of Ernest and Marva Davis’s life. And one of his favorite haunts was the famous Plaza Hotel, a prime stop on the Chitlin Circuit.

    heardofem.com

    elizabethrivertrail.org

    nps.gov/locations/chesapeakebaywatershed/grants.htm

    virginiahumanities.org
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    13 mins
  • ERT: Berkley Baptism

    ERT: Berkley Baptism
    Apr 1 2026

    On the south side of Norfolk, across the river from downtown, there’s a very small and very Black community called Berkley, where the summer heat gave way to dipping in the Elizabeth River or, depending on the decade, cannonballing into the community pool. But when big business eats the shoreline and concrete covers the last pool, where does a neighborhood find joy?

    heardofem.com

    elizabethrivertrail.org

    nps.gov/locations/chesapeakebaywatershed/grants.htm

    virginiahumanities.org
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    13 mins
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