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From slavery to Ferguson, Ken Burns sees an unfinished Civil War - The Washington Post
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Washington Post reporter, Alyssa Rosenberg's intervew with Ken Burns of the documentary "The Civil War." Burns offers his own view of race relations in 2015, 150 years after the emancipation.
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