Artist Campaigns for Barefoot Families

December 7, 2010 4:19 PM

An estimated 1.5 billion people all over the world, many of them children, do not own a pair of shoes. As part of our continuing series "American Spirit," Dave price reports on how artist Michael Franti is trying to change that.

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