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Little White Lie: Growing Up White
In this excerpt from the Independent Lens documentary Little White Lie, filmmaker Lacey Schwartz looks back at her birth and childhood, through family photos and home movies. From a young age she’d begun to wonder why her skin was darker than other family and friends, and it became the one thing she wanted to change.
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