Civil Rights Trailblazer Claudette Colvin & Respectability Politics | Need To Know

A film is in the works about Claudette Colvin, a civil rights hero whose criminal record was recently expunged. How have film and TV helped elevate leaders who have been maligned in history? MTV News correspondent Dometi Pongo explains.

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