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America Beyond the Color Line

America Beyond the Color Line

2004 1 Seasons 4 Episodes ⭐ 7.5 Documentary

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.

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.

Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

South: The Black Belt

Gates travels to Memphis, Birmingham, and Atlanta—civil rights battlegrounds in the 1950s and '60s—to explore how mu

EP 2

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 "un

EP 3

East Coast: Ebony Towers

The existence of a small group of African Americans at the heart of the political establishment and the pinnacle of corp

EP 4

Los Angeles: Black Hollywood

Gates asks whether America's entertainment industry is institutionally racist or whether it is becoming increasingly col

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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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