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Town Destroyer | History's Impact: Trauma vs. Catalyst
Whether it be a name or a monument, what harm can it bring? Jessica Young explains how the repeated experience of seeing something like "dead Indian" in Victor Anautoff's "Life in Washington" murals can traumatize while Pete Galindo shares how, even though he grew up with violence around him, a work of art depicting violence would instead validate and empower him.
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The remarkable life of a fearless Mississippi sharecropper-turned-human-rights-activist.
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A Chinese American family’s search for their roots leads them to the Mississippi Delta.
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