pop culture roundup 
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10-27-16
Pop Culture Roundup
This Week: #BlackAmericaPBS, American Revolution Museum, THE anti-labor film, Barry Obama movie, and much more!
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10-20-16
Pop Culture Roundup
This week ... Smithsonian's ruby red slippers, Nat Turner, Bob Dylan, Jim Lehrer, Wright Brothers movie, and much more!
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10-12-16
Pop Culture Roundup
This Week: Nate Parker's "The Birth of a Nation," Ava DuVernay's "13th," "Hamilton," Shakespeare, the Statue of Liberty, and more!
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10-6-16
Pop Culture Roundup
This Week: New films about Nat Turner, prisons, Holocaust Deniers, Pam Grier, Apartheid, and more. It's our biggest and best Pop Culture Roundup ever!
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9-29-16
Pop Culture Roundup
This Week: David Irving on trial, gay history, "I Am Not Your Negro," and much more.
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9-22-16
Pop Culture Roundup
This Week: Watch the building of the black history museum. See trailer for the new Beatles movie. Oliver Stone's "Snowden." Oscar Wilde's prison cell. And much much more!
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9-15-16
Pop Culture Roundup
This Week: Armageddon, a kiss, black freedom fighters, Amos and Andy, Mel Gibson and more.
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9-8-16
Pop Culture Roundup
This Week: Nat Turner movie, Jackie Kennedy, comic books, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 9-11 attack on the Pentagon, and much more.
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9-1-16
Pop Culture Roundup
This week: World War II movies, Nat Turner, Obama: the movie, the Holocaust, colorizing historic photos, and much much more!
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8-17-16
Pop Culture Roundup: This Week
This Edition: Movies about Ben Hur, the attack on the Pentagon, JFK and Jackie, and much more!
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8-11-16
Pop Culture Roundup: This Week
This week ... The Simpsons on Trump, slavery films, the Beatles, Harry Truman and more!
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8-2-16
Pop Culture Roundup: This Week
This week ... JFK Jr., Matt Damon saves ancient China, the artist who challenged Hitler, Ken Burns's new documentary, and lots more!
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7-27-16
Pop Culture Roundup: This Week
This Week ... The London Underground, Pokemon, Hitler and art, Black Lives Matter and more.
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7-21-16
Pop Culture Roundup: This Week
This Week: Ken Burns's children's book, a website for Reparations, honoring a gay rights leader, and more!
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7-14-16
Pop Culture Roundup: This Week
This week ... Frederick Douglass, van Gough's ear, nuns raped in WW2, "Free State of Jones" and more.
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7-7-16
Pop Culture Roundup: This Week
This week ... J.R.R. Tolkien, Ken Burns, the bikini at 70, Hamilton (bien sur!), Nazi art, and Tarzan!
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6-30-16
Pop Culture Roundup: This Week
This week ... A new American Experience show on the Berlin Olympics of 1936, "Free State of Jones," "Angels in America," and lots more!
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6-23-16
Pop Culture Roundup: This Week
This week ... Buster Keaton, Charlotte Bronte, FDR's last painting, X-Men, Wonder Woman, Deborah Lipstadt documentary, and more!
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Pop Culture Roundup: This Week
This week ... Hamilton's billion dollar performance, an art history game, Malcolm Gladwell's history podcast, and much more!
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6-9-16
Pop Culture Roundup: This Week
This week ... the new "Birth of a Nation," "Roots," the French Resistance, constitutional amendments, and more.
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