America ReFramed

Blurring the Color Line | James Brown

Deanna Brown talks with Blurring the Color Line filmmaker Crystal Kwok about her father, the music legend James Brown, who grew up in Augusta, Georgia. She tells of his young life living in the Southern city and having to work in one of the Chinese-owned grocery stores to survive through poverty - this was very much like the lives of other Black residents.

Blurring the Color Line | James Brown

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