Roots and Branches Season 2

🌾 Roots & Branches: Season 2 – The Matriarch’s Line

Season 2 turns inward — from the grand story of origins to the intimate story of one woman’s bloodline. Centered on the lives of Grivel Hinton’s descendants, the season journeys through the complex legacy of Inez Hinton, Joe Gordon, and Lillie Mae Kearse, revealing a matriarchal thread that weaves strength through hardship.

Through storytelling and reflection, this season examines how generations of women carried faith, raised children, and held families together in the face of abandonment, poverty, and loss. It’s a story about survival — but also about transformation. We hear how daughters became mothers, how trauma became tradition, and how the past continues to whisper into the present.

Season 2 moves between Johnston County, North Carolina, and South Carolina, following the routes of migration, labor, and love that shaped an entire family. It ends by reclaiming dignity for women like Inez and Lillie Mae — women whose choices were often misunderstood, but whose endurance made everything possible