Leaving Tech To Pursue Farming; Edward Ball On ‘Life Of A Klansman’

Leaving Tech To Pursue Farming; Edward Ball On ‘Life Of A Klansman’

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Chris Newman quit his software job to pursue farming in Virginia. We talk to him about his farming ethos, which draws on his ancestral heritage as a Piscataway tribe member. Also, after writing a historical memoir about his family’s participation in the slave trade, Edward Ball decided to bring his Black and white descendants together to apologize. He joins us to discuss his new book “Life of a Klansman.“