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Ken Burns Delves Deeply Into America's Complex Racial History

Published May 8, 2016 at 4:29 PM CDT

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns has been chosen to deliver this year's Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, the highest honor bestowed by the federal government for work in the field. He will talk about race in America.

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