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101) Fantastic lies
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30 for 30 volume season 3, no. 7
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English
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On March 13, 2006, a group of Duke University lacrosse players threw a team party that ended up changing lives, ruining careers, tarnishing a university's reputation and even jeopardizing the future of the sport at the school. Acclaimed director Marina Zenovich ('Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired') delves into the party that ignited a national firestorm and resulted in a highly-charged legal investigation with its underlying themes of sex, race,...
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"In 1931 Hawaiʻi, Thalia Massie, the aristocratic wife of a naval officer, accused five nonwhite men of gang rape. When the trial ended in a hung jury, Thalia's mother arranged for one of the suspects to be murdered--an act sanctioned by sympathetic whites as an "honor killing." The ensuing murder trial , Clarence Darrow's last, enthralled the nation and exposed the shocking realities of a Hawaiian "paradise" held captive by a racist cabal of military...
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The explosion of racial hate in an Alabama town is viewed by a little girl whose father defends a black man accused of rape.
La conciencia de una ciudad impregnada de prejuicios, violencia e hipocresía es golpeada por la resistencia y el silencioso heroísmo de la lucha de un hombre por la justicia, en este clásico ganador del Premio Pulitzer que se ha traducido a más de 40 idiomas.
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Blackie books volume BA12
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Español
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La historia de Chanel Miller cambió el mundo para siempre. En 2016, Brock Turner, de diecinueve años, la violó en el campus de Stanford. Despertó confusa en el hospital, no recordaba nada. Lo que venía ahora era una reconstrucción de los hechos lenta y penosa, la lucha contra las evidentes fisuras en la seguridad de los campus universitarios y uno de los juicios más vergonzosos de la historia de EE.UU., donde Miller tuvo que responder a preguntas...
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