Black America since MLK Part three Keep your head up Black America since MLK and still I rise Keep your head up Williams, Leah (Television producer) director, producer. Streeter, Sabin director. McMahon, Talleah Bridges director, producer. Gladsjo, Leslie Asako director. McGee Media (Firm) production company. Inkwell Films (Firm) production company. Kunhardt Films (Firm) production company. moving image videorecording Documentary television programs. History. Documentary television programs. Documentaires télévisés. vau 2016 monographic eng access remote 1 online resource (57 min.) 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. Gates visits his old friends Oprah Winfrey and Bob Johnson, who blazed astonishing trails during this era, reaching levels of success that Dr. King would never have imagined possible. Yet he also talks with Reverend Al Sharpton, who recalls the desperate fight mounted within poor black communities against a terrifying new scourge that was tearing lives and families apart: crack cocaine. Gates learns from Ronald Day, who grew up in the South Bronx, how hard it was to resist the profits of the crack business - a livelihood that eventually sent Day to prison, and fueled the spread of ever-harsher crime laws and policing tactics all over the country. Meeting with former Attorney General Eric Holder, Gates dissects the tragedy of America's War on Drugs, mapping out the dire consequences of an unprecedented prison-building boom set against the dismantling of the country's social safety net - a deadly combination that devastated many of the poorest and most vulnerable black communities. At the same time, Gates shows how many Americans, dazzled by the prominence of black superstars from Bill Cosby to Michael Jackson, and surrounded by compelling evidence of a well-established black middle class, were becoming convinced that racial inequality had been vanquished for good. The era's racial flashpoints called this view into serious doubt, however. The controversial Rodney King and O.J. Simpson verdicts, and the confirmation hearings of Justice Clarence Thomas - which Gates revisits with eyewitnesses like LAPD officer Stephany Powell and Thomas protégé Armstrong Williams - attested to the persistence of the color line in American society, despite the increasing diversity of the black community. adult a film by McGee Media, Inkwell Films & Kunhardt Films ; producers, Talleah Bridges McMahon, Leah Williams ; directed by Leslie Asako Gladsjo, Talleah Bridges McMahon, Sabin Streeter, Leah Williams. Title from resource description page (viewed September 11, 2018). "And still I rise." In English. n-us--- African Americans History African Americans Social conditions African Americans Civil rights African Americans Economic conditions United States Social conditions 1980-2020 United States Race relations Noirs américains Histoire Noirs américains Conditions sociales Noirs américains Droits Noirs américains Conditions économiques États-Unis Relations raciales African Americans African Americans Civil rights African Americans Economic conditions African Americans Social conditions Race relations Social conditions United States 1980-2020 fast E185 Academic Video Online http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?MARC;3973999 ALSTP 180911 20241201232846.8 in00005583750 eng