August 6, 2024 - Rooted, the Pentathlon, and J. Courtney Sullivan

Germaine Jenkins has  made it her mission to do something about the food deserts in her native South Carolina. In 2014, she co-founded Fresh Future Farm  on a vacant city lot with $600 from a family tax refund. What thrives today is a food Oasis..  Her  ongoing fight for food justice is the focus of the documentary film “Rooted.”  She joins us ahead of a screening event at the Martha’s Vineyard African American FIlm Festival.Then, Culture Show contributor James Bennett II gives us an explainer on one of the more obscure and complicated Olympic sports, the Pentathlon.Finally, best-selling author J. Courtney Sullivan joins The Culture Show to talk about her latest novel, “The Cliffs.”  It is an intricately layered novel of family, spirits, and secrets set on the seaside cliffs of Maine.