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"The animating idea of The 1619 Project is that our national narrative is more accurately told if we begin not on July 4, 1776, but in late August of 1619, when a ship arrived in Jamestown bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival inaugurated a barbaric and unprecedented system of chattel slavery that would last for the next 250 years. This is sometimes referred to as the country's original sin, but it is more...
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Produced and directed by Oscar and Emmy Award winner Bill Couturié (HBO's Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam), this one-hour documentary is an intimate, deeply moving tribute to American soldiers recently killed during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Produced in association with LIFE books and the New York Times. HBO Video's net proceeds from this program will benefit the families of soldiers who have died in military operations in Iraq, Afghanistan...
