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Bill Moyers excellent interview with 2 experts on race and incarceration reveals some startling figures about the disproportionate number of minorities in American prisons. They go on to explain why the war on drugs is also a war on the Afro American community. Drug use in predominantly white suburban America is just as high as it is in minority dominated ghettos. But the stigma attached to the inner cities causes police to concentrate their efforts there where 1 in every 3 Afro American men goes to prison—many on non-violent drug possession charges, and many for life without parole in states with '3 or 4 strikes your out laws.' The result is the decimation of urban black families and communities who have seen a large portions of their members sent to prison...
Martin Luther King Jr.
Democracy Now
More attention has been paid this year to Martin Luther King Jr Day (now a holiday in the U.S), given its proximity to Obama's inauguration. The question most frequently asked is whether or not Obama's election finally validates King's legacy. King might have the best answer to that question himself. Listen to excerpts from 2 of his most famous speeches and decide for yourself. The first is from his speech against The Vietnam War, given in New York, exactly one year before his death—the second is from his final speech, given in Memphis on 04/03/68, the day before his death...
Civil Wrongs
Bill Moyers on race in america
Moyers continues a series on race in the U.S on the heels of Barak Obama's campaign [and i thought he was only half black]. This week's interview is with Douglas Blackmon, whose new book uncovers a legacy of slavery in the south that continued well into the 1940s. He explains how police used minor laws to detain black men for things like loitering, then sold them as slaves to work projects & industrialists
Civil Rights in America
more on race from Bill Moyers
Broad story on civil rights in America on anniversary of '68 Kerner Report, which denounced racial segregation in America. Guests discuss the race riots in Detroit, Newark & Watts that led to civil rights reform; and site Katrina, Jena (La), record numbers of minorities in prison and the concentration of sub-prime forclusures in urban areas, as evidence that discrimination has not disappeared, but merely changed its face...
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Jeremiah Wright
Bill Moyers interview (05/22/08)
Barak Obama's former Chicago pasteur's first t.v interview after the controversy w/ Obama. In this interview w/ Bill Moyers, he is reasonable & articulate—nothing like the mainstream media has made him appear. Moyers response the following week is a classic critique of race, the media and all america's dirty little black secrets that no one in the mainstream press has the balls to talk about
Civil Rights Footage
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Howard Zinn
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