Ben Caldwell Profiled

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Southern California's most-watched public television station, KCET, is celebrating Black History Month with profiles of iconic Angelenos. This week, they've chosen to highlight the work of filmmaker and artist Ben Caldwell.

"Educator and documentary filmmaker Ben Caldwell has long been an exemplar of that sort of stubborn, revolutionary love, a form of devotion for which there are many, many historical precedents but increasingly fewer living avatars."

Read more at Iconic Angelenos in Black History: Ben Caldwell.