America Beyond the Color Line — Season 1, Episode 4: Los Angeles: Black Hollywood
Documentary • 57 min • 1 season, 4 episodes • ★ 7.5/10
Episode synopsis
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.
About America Beyond the Color Line
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.