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True North: Canadian Myths and Black Power

Season 27 Episode 14
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Assembly

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Third Act

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Light of the Setting Sun

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Natchez

Season 27 Episode 10
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The Tallest Dwarf

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Inside Our Legal System

Keep Quiet and Forgive

Season 27 Episode 7
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African American and Proud

The Inquisitor

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The Librarians

The Librarians

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Artistic Expression

Vivien's Wild Ride

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Flood

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Independent Lens

All God's Children | The History of White People in America, Episode 5

In this moving, animated short, poet Ashley M. Jones offers a lyrical historical account of Ann Williams, an enslaved Black woman who won her freedom in the 1830s. When faced with the torturous fate of being separated from her family and sold into Southern slavery, Williams took a literal leap of faith to avoid the dreadful mandate.

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