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America ReFramed: La Manplesa: An Uprising Remembered

People holding up a justice for Gomez and King banner
PBS

Thu Sept. 28 at 8:00PM on WKAR-HD & STREAMING | On May 5th, 1991, people took to the streets of Washington D.C.'s Mount Pleasant neighborhood to protest the police shooting of a young Salvadoran man, Daniel Gomez. Through testimony, song, poetry, and street theater, LA MANPLESA: An Uprising Remembered weaves together the collective memory of one of D.C.'s first barrios and dives into the roots of the '91 rebellion.

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