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Need To Know | American Voices: Thoai Nguyen | PBS

Duration: 02:09 (Full Program)
Program: Need to Know #227
Broadcast Date: Mar. 14, 2012

A Vietnamese-American essayist, Thoai Nguyen, talks about tensions in the inner city of Philadelphia between African-Americans and newly arrived south Asian immigrants.

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Post Date: March 14, 2012