In ‘Black America Since MLK,’ success and vulnerability

Name: In ‘Black America Since MLK,’ success and vulnerability
Uploaded: 2016-11-23T00:43:20Z
Duration: P361S
Description: It’s the best of times and worst of times for black Americans, says Henry Louis Gates Jr. He joins Jeffrey Brown to preview the PBS mini-series “Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise,” and discuss both great gains and the vulnerability of those gains in the years after Dr. Martin Luther King.

Clip: 11/22/2016 | 6m 1s

It’s the best of times and worst of times for black Americans, says Henry Louis Gates Jr. He joins Jeffrey Brown to preview the PBS mini-series “Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise,” and discuss both great gains and the vulnerability of those gains in the years after Dr. Martin Luther King.

Aired: 11/22/16

Rating: NR

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