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    Channing Godfrey Peoples

    Sep 15, 2020 3 minutes
    Interview by ROGAN GRAHAM
    Illustration by
     
    RUMBIDZAI MARILYN SAVANHU

    Miss Juneteenth is the debut feature from writer/director Channing Godfrey Peoples. It focuses on the deferred dreams of former pageant queen Turquoise Jones (Nicole Beharie) and her plan to convince her daughter to secure the same crown and a university scholarship as she did.

    Peoples: Juneteenth is a day to commemorate the fact that the enslaved people in Texas didn’t find out

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