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AMERICA REFRAMED: The Death of My Two Fathers

William Richard Guy (Father), and Sol Guy (Son).
Guy Family Archives
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America Reframed
William Richard Guy (Father), and Sol Guy (Son).

Stream now with KPBS Passport on KPBS+ / Watch Saturday, Feb. 14, 2026 at 11 p.m. on KPBS 2 + Sunday, Feb. 15 at 2 p.m. on KPBS 2

After 20 years, Sol Guy finally watches his late father's tapes and embarks on a personal journey of healing and reconciliation. At once a conversation between past and present and a letter to Sol's children, "The Death Of My Two Fathers" reveals the complexities of identity, the persistence of racial trauma, the challenges of fatherhood -- and the liberation that exists in facing our own mortality.

William and Sol Guy, father and son, share words of love to their children having experienced fatherhood both different and same. For William, it was at a time near the end. And for Sol, his father's recorded words have guided him as he hopes his do the same for his daughter and son.
Reckoning with the past means reconciling our present and future. By exploring his father's life, Sol Guy's eyes were opened to his own choices and the impact it has had on the family around him. Now, the father, brother, and son has the knowledge to break the cycle of following in/repeating his father's footsteps.
In hindsight, Sol Guy sees how the death of his father, William, has shaped who he is as a father and as a man. It has also brought clarity; instead of running away after his stepfather's ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) diagnosis, Sol went to care for and love Freye in the most challenging of times.

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