Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise

Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise looks at the last five decades of African American history since major civil rights victories through the eyes of Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and the the gains and challenges of these years. Drawing on eyewitness accounts, scholarly analysis and rare archival footage, the series illuminates our recent past and paints a complex and comprehensive portrait of black America since 1965, while raising urgent questions about the future of the African-American community – and our nation as a whole. How far have we come toward racial equality since the civil rights era? What does it mean to be black today? How have we, as a nation, elected a black President while events like those in Ferguson continue to occur? All Americans whatever their race and whenever they were born, want to make sense of the last 50 years of our history. This series drives straight to the heart of those questions. Join GPB Macon and the Tubman Museum to preview selected footage from this new PBS documentary. Following the showing we will host a panel discussion that features Dr. Teri McMurty-Chubb a professor at the Mercer Law School, Dr. Chester Fontenot, Director of Africana Studies at Mercer University, and Community Activist Danny Glover. The moderator for the event will be Michelle Beverly who is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies in the Department of Journalism and Media Studies at Mercer University. *The entire 4-hour series will premeire on GPB in two parts on November 15 & 22 at 8:00pm