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Michael Smerconish tackles the American political & news stories of the week, offering only one kind of talking points: his own.

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The history of Black Wall Street & the violent events of 1921 in Tulsa, when mobs of white residents, spurred by an accusation of inappropriate behavior by a Black man against a white woman, destroyed the 35-block Greenwood District. - 

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The little-known true story of Beulah Mae Donald, a Black mother in Alabama who took down the Ku Klux Klan after the brutal murder & lynching of her son. Michael Donald was just nineteen years old when he was found dead, hanging from a tree in Mobile, Alabama, on March 21, 1981. The leaders of the local Black community immediately suspected it was a Klan lynching, but local law enforcement was slow to acknowledge the murder was racially motivated. When the investigation stalled, Michael Donald's mother, Beulah, & local Black leaders refused to back down until Michael's killers & the hateful organization they belonged to were brought to justice.

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7pm PT *The Lynching*

After a Black teenager, Michael Donald, is found lynched in Mobile, AL in 1981, & local law enforcement fail to apprehend the killers, Donald's mother Beulah Mae & Black activists fight for an investigation into the local Klan chapter. -

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*It Takes a Mother*

Beulah Mae Donald and her attorney Michael Figures join forces with Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center to wage a multi-million-dollar civil suit against the United Klans of America. -

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This series examines the decade through its poli

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*The Seventies*

Films of the 1970s that pushed the medium of movie making, such as "The Godfather," "The Exorcist" & "Jaws." - TV Passport