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BaddDDD Sonia Sanchez | Behind The Story #2
Maya Angelou once described fellow writer Sonia Sanchez as “a lion in literature's forest." "BaddDDD Sonia Sanchez" filmmaker Sabrina Schmidt Gordon talks about the works of Sonia Sanchez as spoken through the likes of Nikki Giovanni, Ursula Rucker, Bryonn Bain, Lita Hooper and others in the documentary.
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