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Brian Palmer, an independent reporter, photographer, and filmmaker's "Full Disclosure," airs on the Doc Channel Tuesday, May 31, at 8 PM (ET/PT). Full Disclosure is based on three embeds in Iraq with the same U.S. Marine infantry battalion. His photographs have appeared recently in The New York Times, Politiken, ColorLines, and other publications. From 2000 to 2002, Palmer was a CNN correspondent. He was the Beijing Bureau Chief for US News & World Report from 1996 to 1998.  Next we have in the studio Director/Producer Kim A. Snyder to talk about her latest film: Welcome to Shelbyville," which has a free community screening in Oakland, CA, this evening, May 25, 2011, at 6 PM at Oakland Asian Cultural Center, 2nd floor of the Pacific Renaissance Plaza in Oakland's Chinatown, 388 Ninth Street, Suite 290. Kim Synder is an award-winning filmmaker with more than a dozen shorts and two feature documentaries, including I Remember Me. She co-founded the BeCause Foundation to produce socially conscious documentaries that further the work of the social innovators they highlight. We close with Lawrence Beamen, whose rendition of  Barry White's “My First, My Last, My Everything” on America’s Got Talent in 2009, Piers Morgan declared that he was “The New Barry White.” On May 27, Beamen will reveal a new show that pays tribute to the R&B crooner. "Real music is power,” said Beamen. “It can do things we can't even imagine.  Like true love, it penetrates the soul." Visit Beamen’s webpage: The shows are Friday, May 27, 7:45 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. at Pier 39 Theatre, Beach Street and the Embarcadero, San Francisco, www.lawrencebeamen.com   For tickets:  http://www.eventbrite.com