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With the end of another year in sight we decided to tell the story of a woman whose life spanned the entire human experience. Hope. Tragedy. Soaring success.

Augusta Savage was a richly colored thread in the tapestry that was the Harlem Renaissance. Her greatest work was bulldozed at the end of the 1939 World's Fair, but it endured like a gospel song passed from one generation to another without a written score.

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"By December 1940, the N***s had almost driven Britain into the sea and America didn’t know if it wanted to throw her a life jacket."

These are the opening lines of Monday Morning ARTe's special Thanksgiving story built around the remarkable Norman Rockwell Painting "Freedom From Want."

Its a fascinating story combining FDR's 1940 State Of The Union address, N***s sympathizers in the halls of Congress, a war that wasn't going well and the indomitable American spirit.

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Have a Happy ARTe Thanksgiving!

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