Dawn Porter

filmmaker/director

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“Deadlocked: How America Shaped the Supreme Court” looks at the decades leading up to the creation of the most conservative court in recent history.

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This is a rebroadcast:   Georgia Congressman John Lewis is a civil rights icon.

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Filmmaker Dawn Porter chronicles Lewis’s life of activism in her new documentary called “John Lewis: Good Trouble.”

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