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Do viewers want film and TV to directly confront racism?

by Kai Ryssdal and Emily Henderson

Aug 16, 2017

New York Times culture critic Wesley Morris discusses the way race and culture intersect in the aftermath of Charlottesville.

Hundreds of people gather Sunday for a vigil on the spot where 32-year-old Heather Heyer was killed when a car plowed into a crowd of people protesting against the white supremacist Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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