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Last week, legendary documentarian Ken Burns angered many in the Latino community when it was revealed that his upcoming (and much hyped) PBS documentary about World War II completely ignored the contribution of Latinos on the U.S. side of the conflict.

Several Latino leaders and military veterans, angry that Burns’ high-profile documentary series “The War” includes no conversations with Latinos who fought, are demanding changes. PBS and Burns want to satisfy an important constituency, without the precedent of a filmmaker forced to change his vision due to a protest.

According to AP, the omissions in the yet-to-be-released doc were revealed by one

Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez, a former newspaper reporter who runs an oral history project about Latino World War II veterans at the University of Texas.

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