The Worst Episodes of America Beyond the Color Line
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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.
Lowest Rated Episodes Summary
The worst episode of "America Beyond the Color Line" is "South: The Black Belt", rated N/A/10 from 0 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by N/A. "South: The Black Belt" aired on 2/3/2004 and is rated NaN point(s) lower than the second lowest rated, "Chicago: Streets of Heaven".
NaN/10 0 votes#1 - South: The Black Belt
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 2/3/2004
Gates travels to Memphis, Birmingham, and Atlanta—civil rights battlegrounds in the 1950s and '60s—to explore how much they really have changed.
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#2 - Chicago: Streets of Heaven
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 2/3/2004
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?
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#3 - East Coast: Ebony Towers
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 2/4/2004
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.
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#4 - Los Angeles: Black Hollywood
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 2/4/2004
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.
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