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The Making of a Griot | United States of Comedy, Ep 1
Haitian-born, Brooklyn-based comic Tanael Joachim mines comedy from being a fish out of water.
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Make Peace or Die: Honor the Fallen
A veteran uses hand-carved battlefield crosses to reconnect with families of fallen, fellow Marines.
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Trailer | Make Peace or Die: Honor the Fallen
A veteran uses hand-carved battlefield crosses to reconnect with families of fallen, fellow Marines.
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All God's Children | The History of White People in America, Episode 5
The powerful story of an enslaved woman who sued and won her family’s freedom in 1832.
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The Diary of Afong Moy | The History of White People in America, Episode 4
How America's first Chinese woman was exhibited and exploited as a circus oddity in 1830s New York.