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Lacey Schwartz Unearths Family Secrets in 'Little White Lie'
Filmmaker Lacey Schwartz always had the darkest skin in her nice Jewish family. Her documentary Little White Lie reveals the reason for that. She tells Kim Masters about revealing her family's drama in her new PBS documentary.
By Kim Masters • • 29m ListenLacey Schwartz grew up thinking she was white. When her college labeled her a black student based on a photograph, she knew she had to get some explanations from her family. Those conversations formed the foundation of her new PBS documentary Little White Lie. She shares how she convinced her parents to talk about tough topics on camera and why documentaries like hers are in danger of being pushed out of primetime on some PBS stations.
Photo: Young Lacey and her parents, Robert and Peggy
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Growing up, Jewish filmmaker Lacey Schwartz was told by her family that she had dark skin because she took after her Sicilian great-grandfather. The truth was not so simple: the man Schwartz had always known as "daddy" was not her biological father; her mother's black lover was.
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