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Natasha Trethewey Returns to New Orleans

Season 1 Episode 3 | 2m 31s

Pulitzer Prize winner Natasha Trethewey's book of poetry "Monument" is creative defiance against cultural erasure in the face of white supremacy. Trethewey returns to New Orleans where the removal of Confederate monuments begs the question, "What was there?"

Natasha Trethewey Returns to New Orleans
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