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"If Beale Street Could Talk": Barry Jenkins uses relationships as "vehicle for empathy"

"Moonlight" director and writer Barry Jenkins is out with a new film based on the James Baldwin novel, "If Beale Street Could Talk." The film is about a young black couple in New York City in the 1970s whose families come together to fight the man's wrongful imprisonment amid a big surprise. Jenkins joins "CBS This Morning" to discuss how the issues depicted in Baldwin's novel persist today.
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