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Season 23 Episode 1
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Storm Lake

Season 23 Episode 3
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Missing in Brooks County

Season 23 Episode 7
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Hazing

Season 24 Episode 1
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TikTok, Boom.

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Move Me

Move Me

Season 24 Episode 3
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Children of Las Brisas

Children of Las Brisas

Season 24 Episode 4
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The Big Payback

The Big Payback

Season 24 Episode 5
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No Straight Lines

No Straight Lines

Season 24 Episode 6
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The Picture Taker

The Picture Taker

Season 24 Episode 7
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Outta the Muck

Outta the Muck

Season 24 Episode 8
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Love in the Time of Fentanyl

Love in the Time of Fentanyl

Season 24 Episode 9
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The First Rainbow Coalition

Season 21 Episode 7

In 1969, the Chicago Black Panther Party formed alliances across ethnic and racial lines with other community-based movements in the city, including Latinx group the Young Lords and southern whites the Young Patriots. Banding together in one of postwar America's most segregated cities to confront issues like police brutality and substandard housing, they called themselves the Rainbow Coalition.

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