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Women Alive!
This episode of Woman Alive!, a television show developed by Ms. magazine and public television, features the short film (beginning at 06:50), Consider the Source by filmmaker Bonda E. Lee.
The film begins with footage of people crossing New York City streets while the narrator, Lynn H. Ball, reads quotes from black and white women regarding their views on racism, sexism, and capitalism. After an opening title credit, the film places the current state of racial inequality through the history of slavery and into the modern women's movement. Forty-five years later, many of the same "distortions and perpetuations" are still resonant today.
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