Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Self - Host
America Beyond the Color Line (2004)
Miniseries
Henry Louis Gates Jr., Harvard's chair of Afro-American Studies, travels the length and breadth of the United States to take the temperature of black America at the start of the new century. He explores this rich and diverse landscape, social as well as geographic, and meets the people who are defining black America, from the most famous and influential to those at the grassroots.
Released Feb. 3, 2004
Episode 57 min
None+
Genres: Documentary, History
Keywords: tmdb.racism, tmdb.race-relations, mdblist.imdb-tv-mini-series, imdb.tv-mini-series, imdb.deep-south, imdb.chicago-illinois, imdb.chess-master + 29 more, imdb.black-american-culture, imdb.black-affluence, imdb.atlanta-georgia, imdb.character-name-in-title, imdb.race-relations, imdb.interview, imdb.urban-setting, imdb.rural-setting, imdb.politics, imdb.black-american, imdb.african-american, imdb.u-s-army, imdb.school, imdb.rap-music, imdb.racism, imdb.racial-segregation, imdb.prison, imdb.poverty, imdb.police, imdb.neighborhood, imdb.memphis-tennessee, imdb.los-angeles-california, imdb.interracial-relationship, imdb.hollywood, imdb.film-industry, imdb.civil-rights-movement, imdb.church, imdb.business, imdb.archive-footage
Network: PBS
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S1E1 - South: The Black Belt
Gates travels to Memphis, Birmingham, and Atlanta—civil rights battlegrounds in the 1950s and '60s—to explore how much they really have changed.
Feb. 3, 2004, midnight
S1E2 - Chicago: Streets of Heaven
Gates goes inside the notorious housing projects on Chicago's South Side to find out what life is like for America's "underclass." Is there any hope for the fifth of black Americans who are caught up in a culture of criminality, poverty, and despair?
Feb. 3, 2004, midnight
S1E3 - East Coast: Ebony Towers
The existence of a small group of African Americans at the heart of the political establishment and the pinnacle of corporate America is something that seemed unimaginable just two decades ago. How did they get there, and what is the significance of their success? Gates travels to Washington, DC, and New York to ask whether this new black power elite represents genuine progress for black America as a whole.
Feb. 4, 2004, midnight
S1E4 - Los Angeles: Black Hollywood
Gates asks whether America's entertainment industry is institutionally racist or whether it is becoming increasingly color-blind in pursuit of the box-office dollar.
Feb. 4, 2004, midnight
Network: PBS
Episode Runtime: 57 min.
Season Runtime: 228 min.
Released: Feb. 3, 2004
Last Air Date: Feb. 4, 2004, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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