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Marvin Hamlisch had won three Academy Awards but wanted to work on Broadway shows.
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Charlotta Bass was the first Black woman to run for Vice President of the United States.
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She created the 1619 Project on slavery for The New York Times Magazine.
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Jeannette Rankin made history as the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress.
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Comic legend Carl Reiner describes the two things that gave him the most pleasure in life.
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Zoe Caldwell discusses how she disrupted the English class system with song and dance.
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Jovita Idar was a Latina journalist who worked for an end to segregation and racism.
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Zitkála-Šá co-composed and wrote the libretto for the first American Indian opera.
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How Joseph Pulitzer challenged the one-penny pedestrian toll on the Brooklyn Bridge.
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How Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst crossed the line into "yellow journalism."
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Director Sam Pollard talks about Wilson's relevance, interviewing actors and more.
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August Wilson describes how dialogue comes to him and guides his character development.