{"id":35707,"date":"2014-02-15T21:24:21","date_gmt":"2014-02-15T21:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=35707"},"modified":"2016-04-01T15:59:10","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T15:59:10","slug":"breath-of-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=35707","title":{"rendered":"Breath of Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianchannel.com\/sc\/web\/show\/3402153\/breath-of-freedom\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Breath of Freedom<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianchannel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Smithsonian Channel<\/a><br \/>\nPremieres Monday, 2014-02-17 20:00 EST<\/p>\n<p>Narrated by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cuba_Gooding,_Jr.\" target=\"_blank\">Cuba Gooding Jr.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianchannel.com\/sc\/web\/show\/3402153\/breath-of-freedom\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianchannel.com\/site\/image-bin\/images\/0_0_3402153\/0_0_3402153_01_760x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They fought to liberate Germany from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nazi_Germany\" target=\"_blank\">Nazi rule<\/a>, as racism reached unfathomable levels. Their fight would continue back home on American soil. This is the story of the one-million-plus African Americans who fought in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_War_II\" target=\"_blank\">World War II<\/a>. Discover their encounters with hatred, from the enemy and from within their own ranks. Explore this paradoxical chapter in American history through interviews with war heroes, including <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colin_Powell\" target=\"_blank\">Colin Powell<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tuskegee_Airmen\" target=\"_blank\">Tuskegee ace pilot<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roscoe_Brown\" target=\"_blank\">Roscoe Brown<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_Evers\" target=\"_blank\">Charles Evers<\/a>, brother of Civil Rights activist and WWII veteran <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Medgar_Evers\" target=\"_blank\">Medgar Evers<\/a>. [The documentary also features Theodor Michael, author of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=35520\" target=\"_blank\">Deutsch sein und schwarz dazu: Erinnerungen eines Afro-Deutschen<\/a> [Being German and also Being Black: Memoirs of an Afro-German]<\/em>.]<\/p>\n<p>Watch the exclusive premiere <a href=\"http:\/\/breathoffreedom.gettinglaunched.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breath of Freedom The Smithsonian Channel Premieres Monday, 2014-02-17 20:00 EST Narrated by Cuba Gooding Jr. They fought to liberate Germany from Nazi rule, as racism reached unfathomable levels. Their fight would continue back home on American soil. This is the story of the one-million-plus African Americans who fought in World War II. Discover their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,459,8,1459,20,842],"tags":[16886,5048,16884,2948,15295,16885,16883,16882,16805,969],"class_list":["post-35707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-history","category-media-archive","category-mississippi","category-usa","category-videos","tag-charles-evers","tag-colin-powell","tag-cuba-gooding-jr","tag-germany","tag-medgar-evers","tag-roscoe-brown","tag-smithsonian-channel","tag-the-smithsonian-channel","tag-theodor-michael","tag-world-war-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46367,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35707\/revisions\/46367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}