What did you learn about the roots of music in America?
How do you see the difference between the influence of different cultures on one another to create new art forms vs. the appropriation of artistic forms without proper attribution?
In what other genres do you recognize cultural appropriation?
Why do you think Nikole Hannah-Jones chose to end the series with the topic?
When you think of a farmer in the U.S., what image comes to mind? How has this episode impacted that image? What irony is highlighted in this episode about the competence of Black farmers?
What do you know about ways in which structural racism operates in other industries?