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The stuff of art

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 This vignette is taken from a documentary for family I recorded in 2014. The material was also used for a poem . In it, Sr. Bernadette recounts her experiences around the 1980s and 90s running a home for women and children who had just come across the Mexican border to El Paso, Texas.

Hey, you white boy!

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 Another vignette in which a St. Paul, Minnesota native recounts an episode with his friend Leonardo King at the Ober Boys Club (1941-2020), a mainly black youth club, in the 1950s: