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Producer, actor and writer Lena Waithe on the mixed feelings Blaxploitation evokes.
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Historian Ruth Feldstein on the role of women entertainers in the civil rights movement.

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Tyson was mindful of how she performed Black womanhood.

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Follow the country music superstar’s journey from segregated Mississippi to Nashville.

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She reportedly “couldn’t stand” the romanticized, Hollywood version of the old South.

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Tharp discovers a technical challenge that makes choreographing virtually even harder.

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Archival footage shows one of Twyla Tharp's dances in Central Park amongst the public.

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How Tharp directed her own education at Barnard College.

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Twyla Tharp's creative process is very physical.
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In 1981, Twyla Tharp commissioned David Byrne of the Talking Heads to write music for her.

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The collaboration was "lightening in a bottle," according to Tharp.
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Doc Severinsen goes tot he gym everyday. He also swears by a special preworkout meal.