I Heard It Through the Grapevine

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Renowned Black writer James Baldwin retraces his time in the South during the Civil Rights Movement, reflecting with his trademark brilliance and insight on the passage of more than two decades. From Selma and Birmingham and Atlanta; to the battleground beaches of St. Augustine, Florida, with Chinua Achebe; and back north for a visit to Newark with Amiri Baraka, Baldwin lays bare the fiction of progress in post–Civil Rights America, wondering “what happened to the children” and those 'who did not die, but whose lives were smashed on Freedom Road'.

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Creators

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Pat Hartley

director

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Dick Fontaine

director

James Baldwin

writer

Cast

James Baldwin actor

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David Baldwin actor Chinua Achebe actor Amiri Baraka actor

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Sterling Brown actor David Dennis actor

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Hoyt Fuller actor

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Oretha Castle Haley actor

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Lonnie King actor

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Amanda Bowens Perdew actor

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Charles Sherrod actor

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Fred Lee Shuttlesworth actor

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Hosea Williams actor