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MasterClass Presents: Black History, Black Freedom, and Black Love - Season 2

Series: Black History, Black Freedom, and Black Love
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Episodes
20
Rating
TV14
Year
2022
Language
English
Publisher
MasterClass

About

The Present, seven preeminent Black scholars continue their journey through the history you thought you knew, examining important topics such as the origin of critical race theory, the historic "Brown vs. Board of Education" Supreme Court case, and the legacy of Thurgood Marshall and his lasting effect on civil rights.

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Episodes

1. Meet Your Instructors

5m

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In this introduction to Part II of a three-part class, seven preeminent Black scholars continue their journey through the history you thought you knew, considering white supremacy and Black love from the turn of the century to the present day.

2. Know the Black Intellectual Tradition

14m

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Jelani Cobb continues a discussion of extraordinary Black voices established in Part I, John McWhorter explores the roots of his own "heterodox" thinking, and Cornel West examines revolutionary Christianity and seminal, divergent Black thinkers.

3. Lynching, White Supremacy, and the Law

12m

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Sherrilyn Ifill unpacks the shameful history of lynching in America, exploring how forces of law and order were often deployed to terrorize Black citizens, such as George Armwood, whose murderers were never prosecuted or held responsible.

4. Transcending Victimization

9m

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John McWhorter explains how our grandfathers accomplished amazing feats despite systemic racism. Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood, "The Black Metropolis," is one example of a thriving Black community built from Black love and resourcefulness.

5. The Least Insured and the Most Sick

10m

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Nikole Hannah-Jones demonstrates how the legacy of slavery and forces of white supremacy have continued to impact the quality of healthcare received by all citizens well into the 21st century.

6. Government Fostered Segregation

12m

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Nikole Hannah-Jones discusses how municipalities and the federal government responded to the influx of Black families during the Great Migration. Black citizens were denied the leg up that white citizens received, from the G.I. Bill to redlining.

7. Thurgood Marshall and the Key to Black Citizenship

8m

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Sherrilyn Ifill shares the legacy of Thurgood Marshall, the first Black Supreme Court Justice. Discover how he created a strategy for tearing down racial apartheid through equal access to education, the key to Black citizenship.

8. The Most Monumental Court Case, Perhaps Ever

11m

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Sherrilyn Ifill and Nikole Hannah-Jones deconstruct the Supreme Court case that may be the most consequential of the last century-Brown v. Board of Education-and the story you haven't heard about the highest calling of education: democracy.

9. The Fight for Fair Housing

11m

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Nikole Hannah-Jones lays out the North's version of racial apartheid: housing segregation. After the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and urban uprisings in 100 cities, the federal government passes the mostly unenforceable Fair Housing Act.

10. The Government's "Riot Report"

12m

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Jelani Cobb digs deeper into the most important government study you've never heard of, the Kerner Commission Report. Why do its findings matter? Why were they ignored? And what can we learn from the report now, more than a half-century later?

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