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  • Frontline The Two Nations of Black America (Season 16, Episode 3)
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    TV Episode | 60 min | Documentary, News

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The Two Nations of Black America (Season 16, Episode 3)
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TV Episode | 60 min | Documentary, News
In this FRONTLINE report, correspondent Henry Louis Gates, Jr., a Harvard scholar, explores the gaping chasm between the upper and lower classes of black America and probes why it has happened: "How have we reached this point where we have...See moreIn this FRONTLINE report, correspondent Henry Louis Gates, Jr., a Harvard scholar, explores the gaping chasm between the upper and lower classes of black America and probes why it has happened: "How have we reached this point where we have both the largest black middle class and the largest black underclass in our history?" His personal essay draws a picture of growing black success along with deepening black despair and argues that black upper classes now have more in common with their white colleagues and peers than with those they have left behind in the inner cities. Reviewing the thirty years that have passes since the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., Gates shows that while many blacks reaped the reward of the civil rights movement and affirmative action and gained middle class status , just as many were left behind in an expanding underclass of poverty. The program features interviews with prominent blacks such as Cornel West, William Julius Wilson and Maulana Karenga as well as civil rights veterans like Eldridge Cleaver, Angela Davis and Julian Bond. While they differ on historical interpretation, they all agree that the next phase of the black liberation struggle must be focused on economic deprivation and the class divide. See less
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Writers
June Cross | Henry Louis Gates Jr. (as Henry Louis Gates)
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June Cross
Editor
David Carnochan
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Updated Feb 10, 1998
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Feb 10, 1998 (United States)
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122 wins & 190 nominations

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