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I Heard It Through the Grapevine (1982) Plot Summary Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1982 · 92 mins · English
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- Directed by
- Dick Fontaine, Pat Hartley
- Starring
- Amiri Baraka, James Baldwin, Sterling Brown, David Dennis, David Baldwin, Chinua Achebe
James Baldwin revisits his experiences in the South during the Civil Rights era, delivering brilliance and insight over two decades. He travels from Selma and Atlanta to St. Augustine with Chinua Achebe, then to Newark with Amiri Baraka, exposing the deep progress and questioning what happened to children whose lives were shattered on Freedom Road.
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