Finding Your Roots
What Art Is About
Kasi Lemmons opens up about her reasoning behind her chosen projects.
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Finding Your Roots
What Art Is About
Clip: Season 7 Episode 5 | 56sVideo has Closed Captions
Kasi Lemmons opens up about her reasoning behind her chosen projects.
Kasi Lemmons discusses how she does not feel beholden to censorship when it comes to the Black experience and is interested in showing humanity's gray areas.
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What Art Is About
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Kasi Lemmons discusses how she does not feel beholden to censorship when it comes to the Black experience and is interested in showing humanity's gray areas.
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Preview: S7 Ep5 | 34s | Henry Louis Gates, Jr. helps musician Pharrell Williams and filmmaker Kasi Lemmons. (34s)
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Corporate support for Season 11 of FINDING YOUR ROOTS WITH HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR. is provided by Gilead Sciences, Inc., Ancestry® and Johnson & Johnson. Major support is provided by...