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Tennis-Great Arthur Ash was the first black man to win the Australian Open, the US Open

and Wimbledon.

And he's the subject of a fascinating documentary called Citizen Ash.

In it, we watch Ash rise from not rocking the boat during the tumult of the Civil Rights

Movement.

He was part of this notion that to make it an America and not to become an imitil, you

know, or be another person, a black person that's lynched, you had to sort of stay, you

know, in your lane.

To being an ardent civil rights and humanitarian activist until he died of AIDS in 1993.

He was all about defending oppressed peoples from all over the world.

So just a couple of days after he wins the US Open, he's on the press and, you know, the

rest of his social activism is history.

Follow that journey with the film's co-directors Rex Miller and Sam Pollard in this conversation

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