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NEW YORK (AP) — The late Muhammad Ali is getting the Ken Burns treatment. The PBS documentarian announced Tuesday that he and two partners will make a two-part, four-hour film about the former heavyweight champ, who died last June. Burns, his daughter Sarah and David McMahon collaborated for a PBS documentary on Jackie Robinson that […]

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NEW YORK (AP) — PBS’ documentary on the life of Jackie Robinson gets most interesting when the gloves and bats are put away for good. The two-part film directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and David McMahon airs Monday and Tuesday at 9 p.m. EDT on most PBS stations. The first part details Robinson’s early […]

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NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge has blocked New York City from getting footage gathered by documentary filmmaker Ken Burns in research for his movie about the five men exonerated in the Central Park jogger rape case. Federal Magistrate Judge Ronald Ellis ruled Tuesday that the city had failed to show him a concern […]

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Click here to hear Roland Martin interview filmmaker Ken Burns on the TJMS. — Marvin Gaye sang about "The Inner City Blues" best: Make me wanna holler the way they do my life!  If only we could shout out the socio- eco- injustices in America's urban communities, the world would surely be a better place. […]

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Nearly a decade after five teens wrongfully convicted in the infamous Central Park jogger rape case were finally released and vindicated, the NYPD is again prompting gasps of outrage over its handling of the case. Top city officials have now filed a subpoena demanding that famed independent filmmaker Ken Burns and his Florentine Production company […]

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Nearly a decade after five teens wrongfully convicted in the infamous Central Park jogger rape case were finally released and vindicated, the NYPD is again prompting gasps of outrage over its handling of the case. Top city officials have now filed a subpoena demanding that famed independent filmmaker Ken Burns and his Florentine Production company […]