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Ulysses Jenkins: Video Griot

Planet X

6m 34s

Directed by Ulysses Jenkins • 2006 • United States

Ulysses Jenkins looks at the Katrina catastrophe in New Orleans through the lens of the Planet X doomsday myth and a proclamation of coming disaster to African Americans issued by avant-garde jazz prophet Sun Ra.

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