
Mink!
2022-06-23 · 21 min · ★ 9.0
Told by her daughter Wendy, MINK! chronicles the remarkable Patsy Takemoto Mink, a Japanese American from Hawai'i who became the first woman of color elected to the U.S. Congress, on her harrowing mission to co-author and defend Title IX, the law that transformed athletics for generations in America for girls and women.
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- Ben Proudfoot
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- Hana Kuma, Breakwater Studios, The New York Times
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- United States of America
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- Released
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