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Season 1 E 4 • 08/11/2020

Nearly 60 years after the Freedom Riders protest, Dometi Pongo sits down with historian Lonnie G. Bunch III to discuss the importance of documenting social movements then and now.

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11:27

Conversations in Context
S1 • E1
Movements

Dometi Pongo talks with Secretary of the Smithsonian Institute Lonnie G. Bunch III about Black college students' sit-in protests at a Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro, NC, in 1960.
08/04/2020
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10:04

Conversations in Context
S1 • E2
Marches

Dometi Pongo talks with Lonnie G. Bunch III about the 1917 Silent Parade, one of the first mass civil rights protests in the U.S., the powerful message it sent and the foundation it laid.
08/04/2020
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13:38

Conversations in Context
S1 • E3
Music

Dometi Pongo talks with Lonnie G. Bunch III about the role music plays as a form of protest and empowerment for African Americans, and draws parallels between the blues and hip hop.
08/04/2020
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09:54

Conversations in Context
S1 • E4
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Nearly 60 years after the Freedom Riders protest, Dometi Pongo sits down with historian Lonnie G. Bunch III to discuss the importance of documenting social movements then and now.
08/11/2020
Full Ep
12:22

Conversations in Context
S1 • E5
Memory

Dometi Pongo and Lonnie G. Bunch III talk about the importance of remembering the past, including slavery and the civil rights struggle, in order to see a truer picture of American history.
08/17/2020
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