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What is the Black Liberation Movement trying to achieve?

Watch Black Power: America's Armed Resistance on BBC Select

What is America’s Black Liberation Movement and why is the group gaining traction and attracting members?

In this investigative BBC documentary, filmmaker Dan Murdoch joins members of the group to discover what Black power means and how far they are prepared to go to achieve their ends.

Is this armed Black militia simply a response to American racism or are other factors motivating their actions?

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