Black America Since MLK (2016)

Original title

Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise

Genre

documentary

Country

United States of America

Length

1 season, 4 episodes

Rated

TV-PG

Rating

9.0 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A four part documentary series hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr. It asks how African American life has changed since the 1960s. The series covers major events and cultural moments from the Watts riots to Black Lives Matter.

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What happens

Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise is a 4-hour series that aired on PBS in 2016. The show features interviews and archival footage. Henry Louis Gates Jr. wrote, produced, and narrates the series. Gates said the series was framed around the question: "If Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. woke up and they asked you, 'What's happened since I died?,' what would you tell them?" The show explores class division in the African American community and includes interviews with Oprah Winfrey, Cornel West, Nas, and Jesse Jackson as well as coverage of the Watts riots of 1965, the emergence of hip hop, The Cosby Show, the Rodney King beating, crack epidemic, Michael Jackson, Hurricane Katrina, and Black Lives Matter. It was produced at WETA-TV in Washington D.C. The Brookings Institution held an event centered on the film. A book was published in conjunction with the film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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