‘He told our stories,’ actor Edward James Olmos says of the Chicago writer of corridos some called the ‘Chicano Woody Guthrie.’
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Filmed over six years across the US, Civil War lays bare a nation in denial, haunted by an embittered past and the stories it refuses to tell.
This new book attempts a reassessment of Nat Turner's famous rebellion and what it is we actually know about that event.
The book, and lectures that comprise it, give a powerful impression of an activist and thinker engaged with challenging and wide-ranging issues such as the continent’s history, slavery, independence, and projects of radical socialist development.
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Mountains of material expose the depravity of the men who ran the largest domestic slave trading operation in American history and reveal the fortitude of the enslaved people they trafficked as merchandise.
The wealthy now own more of the economy than at any time since the 1920s. Meanwhile, millions in this country are barely scraping by.
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Based on Jessica B. Harris’ award-winning book, High On The Hog traces the moving story of a people's survival and triumph via the food that has knit generations together and helped define the American kitchen.
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