An interracial couple takes a plantation tour. (13 minutes)
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Act One: The Miseducation of Castlemont High
A bunch of high school students gets taken to see a movie that’s supposed to teach them about history.
Act Two: History is Not a Toy
There’s a museum in Baltimore that was created to memorialize the Black experience in America.
Act Four: Rocket Boy
Paul Zimmer is eighty-three years old now, and he’s still haunted by something he saw in his teens.
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