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Norman Lear on Tough Conversations
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Norman Lear's work focused on real people and real conversations.
American Masters, committed to producing comprehensive film biographies about the broad cast of characters who comprise our cultural history.
Video description: The environmental justice movement came from communities that historically bore the brunt of hosting waste sites in their backyards. When a predominantly black county in North Carolina protested a toxic waste landfill, it galvanized the nation to talk about environmental racism. This video with archival footage is an excerpt from American Masters: A Fierce Green Fire, airing April 22, 2014.
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