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In ‘Black America Since MLK,’ success and vulnerability

Season 2016 Episode 3270 | 6m 01s

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.

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