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Coming Soon: Virginia Military Institute faces a racial reckoning

This exclusive trailer for Season Four of Sounds Like Hate (coming Tuesday, June 14) takes you inside the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) in Lexington, as the school grapples with the legacy of the Confederacy on campus.

In the spring of 2020, some alumni and students at VMI began demanding change — including the removal of the memorials glorifying the Confederacy commonly seen on school grounds. Meanwhile, an independent investigation exposed a longstanding culture of systemic racism. Now, for the first time in 182 years, a Black superintendent has been appointed to lead VMI. But will he be able to implement real change?

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