Photo Courtesy: Roopa Gogineni

Photo Courtesy: Roopa Gogineni

Can we reconcile different versions of history?

Two American foreign correspondents of color fly from Kenya to Louisiana to report on an unfinished civil war back home.

A Confederate Reckoning is the result of a monthlong reporting trip in Lousiana to explore Confederate identity. While the story was ostensibly about the various Confederate monuments and memorials around the state, it also raised issues of race, reconciliation and even journalistic objectivity. 

The story was released on the podcast Us & Them, and can be downloaded via ITunes.