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Norman Lear on Tough Conversations
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Norman Lear's work focused on real people and real conversations.
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Video description: Alice Walker's great-great-great-great-grandmother was a slave who journeyed on foot with two babies on her hips, from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia, which is considered Walker's ancestral home. In memory of that walk, Walker chose to keep and embrace her maiden name, Walker.
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