Ken Burns on Confederate monuments: “They are racism memorialized in our public spaces”
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Ken Burns, a national treasure so precious that Nicolas Cage should really make an adventure movie about trying to find him, has done something quite rare for him: He’s made a film that’s under 10 minutes long. (Under 10 hours long is rare for KB.)