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Netflix's 'High On The Hog' Season 2 explores Black foodways just in time for Thanksgiving dinner.

Host Stephen Satterfield travels the country again to find out just how pervasive the African influence is in American cuisine.

In Season 2 of the Netflix series, Stephen Satterfield explores generational conversations among Black people through food.

Each structure is digitally documented using a laser scanner that emits infrared beams to capture a 3D model of the home. The images are uploaded to a database maintained by the National Park Service that researchers hope can be used by historians and schools to tell the story of sharecroppers, tenant farmers, and their ancestors. “These dwellings were not meant to last 100 years. Part of the reason they still exist is because people lived there relatively recently. But that history has been underserved,” said Sreya Charkraborty, a research associate for the project. “There are stories ...

Preservation experts with the National Park Service are creating a digital database of existing sharecropper and slave dwellings across the Southeast.