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3:00pm Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle: The First African American Trade Union
The story of the organizing of the first black trade union – The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters – provides an account of African American working life between the Civil War and World War II. [59min]
5:00pm: I am not Your Negro
Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House. Filmmaker Raoul Peck examines James Baldwin’s unfinished book about the lives and assassinations of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. [1hr 35min]
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Filmmaker Ava DuVernay explores the history of racial inequality in the United States, focusing on the fact that the nation’s prisons are disproportionately filled with African Americans. [1hr 40min]
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