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  Healing Ground

  Black, Chicago, Communities

  Documentary about a gardening program at the Robert Taylor Homes run by the Resource Center.

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  [Yummy follow-up]

  Black, Communities, Yummy Sandifer

  Andrew Jones goes to several places involved in the Sandifer/ Shevon Dean incident and examines the aftermath of said incident. He also talks with a policymaker about the issue.

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  [Ben Hollis stoop talk #1 for Weekend TV]

  Chicago

  Ben Hollis goes to the Tri-Taylor neighborhood to interview Chicago residents about an activity everyone shares: sitting on stoops and talking. Most memorably, a man who has lived on Taylor Street for over 60 years reminisces about being a precinct captain and expresses his loyalty to Richard J. Daley while his companions eat Italian Ice.

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  City Desk: A Look Back

  Chicago Politics, Harold Washington

  A look back at 40 years of City Desk, a political talk show on WMAQ-TV (a local NBC affiliate). As the tape is only a short retrospective, we see clips of many major Chicago figures but do not go in to much detail.

• [Stoop talk]

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  Edited segment where Ben Hollis goes to the Tri-Taylor neighborhood to interview Chicago residents about an activity everyone shares: sitting on stoops and talking. Most memorably, a man who has lived on Taylor Street for over 60 years reminisces about being a precinct captain and expresses his loyalty to Richard J. Daley while his companions eat Italian Ice.

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  Spin

  Outside Agitators, Politics, Viewers Choice

  This tape documents an interesting period of time in the early ’90s when people with a satellite dish could receive pre-air non-broadcast feeds. The author captured hundreds of hours of this footage and it is an invaluable look at the way politicians craft media appearances. An extremely valuable tape, both for the general knowledge of media and a specific look at the 1992 presidential race.

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  [Studs Terkel raw interview for Anthem]

  Chicago, NHPRC, Outside Agitators, Studs Terkel

  This is a full one camera unedited interview with Studs Terkel, who speaks about his life, politics, history, and America.