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Master documentary filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using Baldwin's original words and a flood of rich archival material. A journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter.
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"American Indian children were placed in federally-sponsored boarding and day schools from 1879 for almost 90 years to be assimilated into white American culture. Educational policies reflected the misguided belief that stripping away a chid's tribal identity would benefit every Indian youth, and society at large. However, the Boarding School experiment failed to achieve its aims. Worse yet, it created multi-generational trauma which contemporary...