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This Spring, your go-to destination for documentaries offers a captivating slate of films including Free Chol Soo Lee, Matter of Mind: My ALS, Sam Now, and Mama Bears.
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Trailer | This Spring on Independent Lens
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This Spring, your go-to destination for documentaries offers a captivating slate of films including Free Chol Soo Lee, Matter of Mind: My ALS, Sam Now, and Mama Bears.
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A Conversation with Rashaad Newsome
Our interview with interdisciplinary artist Rashaad Newsome, co-director and protagonist of Assembly and creator of Being the Digital Griot.Providing Support for PBS.org
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That's our motto.
- I was arrested, but when they told me it was for a murder, I couldn't believe what they were saying.
- In Chinatown, people knew that the Korean didn't do it.
- We decided to form a defense committee.
- I finally had the chance to say, "I'm innocent."
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- My hope for ALS is it goes from being a fatal disease to a chronic disease, so you can live with it.
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- Do you want a dead son or do you want a living trans daughter?
- Once you know how important fighting for your kid is, you can't do anything else but fight for them.
- What I do for my wife, I do it because I love her.
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