• 2016
  • TV-PG
  • 4h
Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise

Summary Documentary with host Henry Louis Gates Jr. chronicles the triumphs, struggles and contradictions of the last fifty years in African American History. View more details

  • 2016
  • TV-PG
  • 4h

Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Cornel West Oprah Winfrey Nas Henry Louis Gates Jr.

All cast & crew

7.3

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Nov 14, 2016

Countries of origin : United States

Official sites : Ark Media Black America Since MLK Website

Language : English

Production companies : Ark Media McGee Media Inkwell Films

Summary Documentary with host Henry Louis Gates Jr. chronicles the triumphs, struggles and contradictions of the last fifty years in African American History. View more details

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Nov 14, 2016

Countries of origin : United States

Official sites : Ark Media Black America Since MLK Website

Language : English

Production companies : Ark Media McGee Media Inkwell Films

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Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise (2016) Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise (2016)

Episodes

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Episode 1 • Nov 14, 2016
Out of the Shadows
The series begins at a turning point in American history: the Selma marches and Watts riots that marked a new phase in the black struggle. Gates explores the rising call for Black Power, redefining American culture, politics, and society.
Episode 2 • Dec 31, 1969
Move on Up
The second hour dramatizes the diverging paths for African Americans and outbursts of white backlash that emerged in the 1970s and early '80s. Gates explores how African Americans found new sources of hope from the creation of hip-hop.
Episode 3 • Dec 31, 1969
Keep Your Head Up
The third hour reveals profound fissures within the country-and within black America-that deepened through the 1980s and '90s, just as African Americans were becoming more visible than ever.
Episode 4 • Dec 31, 1969
And Still I Rise
The final episode deals with Hurricane Katrina and the response to it, including how slow the federal government was to respond to a crisis with mostly African-American victims and how white police and citizens in New Orleans suburbs used guns to physically block African-American refugees from Katrina from entering their cities. It also covers the election of Barack Obama as the first African-American U.S. President and the rise of the "Black Lives Matter" movement in response to police shootings of unarmed African-Americans like Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Among the interviewees is Robert Day, former drug dealer and currently co-head of the Fortune Society, a group aimed at helping young Black prisoners re-enter society and find legitimate work, who talks about the continued criminalization of young Black men, who make up 50 percent of U.S. prison inmates even though they're only 6 percent of the U.S. population.
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