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Our Ancestors Were Just People — Nichole Hill

Season 4 Episode 13 | 29m 39s

Nichole Hill is the award-winning showrunner and creator of Our Ancestors Were Messy, a 2024 Official Tribeca Audio Selection. Through her show, Nichole is pulling the rug out from under the pedestal we tend to put figures in Black history on. To her, people like Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston were huge contributors to Black culture. But...they were also just people. Sometimes messy people

Aired: 11/18/25
Sponsored in part by the Rutland Regional Medical Center and the Vermont Arts Council
Extras
Using his voice, platform, and power to advocate for the LGBTQ+ community with courage and clarity,
What it means to command a space long dominated by white men.
The White House as an example of artworks and exhibitions deemed “objectionable” or “divisive.”
Margaret Cho is back on tour with her bold, unapologetic take on the state of society.
The Vermont Public CEO on public media funding cuts and the future.
A conversation with sexologist Tyomi Morgan in front of a live audience
A long-overdue conversation about the intersectionality of racism, aging and menopause.
Losses and heartbreak led a theatre director to uprooting his home, his craft and his identity.
Joseph as a person and to dig into questions about his life, his views on mental health treatment.
The crushing anxiety of a Haitian American and being Black in America with a child on the way.
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What it means to command a space long dominated by white men.
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The White House as an example of artworks and exhibitions deemed “objectionable” or “divisive.”
Margaret Cho is back on tour with her bold, unapologetic take on the state of society.
The Vermont Public CEO on public media funding cuts and the future.
A conversation with sexologist Tyomi Morgan in front of a live audience
A former stripper spent time in prison and used it as a springboard toward a better life.
Losses and heartbreak led a theatre director to uprooting his home, his craft and his identity.
A long-overdue conversation about the intersectionality of racism, aging and menopause.
Joseph as a person and to dig into questions about his life, his views on mental health treatment.