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SATURDAY JANUARY 20

MURDER IN BOSTON: ROOTS, RAMPAGE AND RECKONING

Beantown’s black backlash

Screening: SoHo, 8.30pm

This three-part documentary tells how a 1989 murder in Boston spiralled into a storm that unleashed the latent racism in the city. One night in October, Charles “Chuck” Stuart called 911 to report that he and his pregnant wife had been shot –he was wounded and she was dying. In an exchange played intalks to those caught up in the panic and sets the story in the context of Boston’s troubled history of race relations. The hailed it

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