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# Lakia
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/the-generations-project/episode/lakia-scwyrq/
- Published: 2025-08-25T19:05:29.000Z
- Updated: 2025-09-01T07:31:20.000Z
- Description: Lakia visits New York and rural Alabama to learn about her great-grandmother's life.
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: The Generations Project, Season 1, Episode 1, #ZZZ_Episode_2236aff7-d944-4446-b112-9916eedaf319, #episode, #ZZZ_Show_3f966c24-7523-441e-b658-1a4de1e8fe71, #geo-us, #v1.16

Is pessimism hereditary? Lakia Holmes journeys through her great-grandmother’s life to find out. Her question takes her from the Big Apple to rural Alabama to the small schoolhouse of her great-grandmother’s youth, a harrowing reenactment of life as a slave and a surprise encounter with the grandfather she has never met.