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  • Baltimore symphony orchestra names first Black music director

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    03:29
  • How oysters are being used to save America’s waterways

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  • Meet the jazz guitarist still thrilling crowds at 96 years old

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  • Car wash empowers autistic employees with sense of self-worth

    03:37
  • Sean Evans on ‘Hot Ones’ secret sauce to success

    03:29
  • MLB aims to make baseball more accessible for Black players

    03:26
  • Beloved opera program in the Ozarks moves into new theater

    03:36
  • Homebuyers swarm Maryland island threatened by climate change

    03:42
  • Couple helps drive diversity into world of classical music

    03:01
  • How 1 man is making waves to rid plastics from the oceans

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  • Zac Brown leads hands-on summer camp experience for kids

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  • A look inside political leaders’ family ties to slavery

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Inside the networks that have kept ‘Black America’ together

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Famed historian and Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates joins NBC’s Harry Smith in this week’s Sunday Spotlight for a conversation about the unsung social groups, labor unions and other organizations that have guided Black Americans through the darkest chapters in American history.