Trailer for the upcoming 90-minute version of the documentary film, "Legacy: Being Black i
Trailer for the upcoming 90-minute version of the documentary film, "Legacy: Being Black in America," being broadcast on PBS starting in February 2008. For more information please see www.legacybeingblackinamerica.com or www.pbs.org/legacybeingblackinamerica.
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ON MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 2007, LONNIE BUNCH, FOUNDING Director of the Smithsonian's National
ON MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 2007, LONNIE BUNCH, FOUNDING Director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), hosted a special tribute dinner to the civil rights generation. This was an historic gathering of 18 celebrated African-Americans from business, politics, academia, the media, and the arts coming together to discuss the changing status of blacks in America.
The dinner was taped for inclusion in a two-hour feature documentary, "Legacy," for broadcast on PBS in February of 2008. "Legacy" will present two parallel stories: the story of the tribute dinner and the lives of African-Americans today set against the story of the civil rights generation. This dual timeline serves to dramatize how race consciousness has been evolving in the United States and what the issues are for achieving full racial integration and equity.
This is a celebration of African-American life, culture, and accomplishment. It is the story of character, courage, and compassion in the face of overwhelming adversity, of strong families and united communities, and of good standing up to evil. And it is the story of a new generation, a generation of lawyers and gangsta rappers, of scholars and high-school dropouts, all as a living legacy of both the pride and the lingering pain, the successes and failures, of the civil rights generation and of the unresolved tensions and conflicts that remain at the heart of the American dream.
At this critical crossroads in the history of race relations, when the clarity and cohesion of the civil rights generation have given way to ambivalence and apathy, when progress has been stalling and Martin Luther King, Jr.'s dream has finally come within reach only to be in danger of slipping away, "Legacy" looks at how our present has been shaped by the past and how it is the legacies of past African-American heroes like Dr. King and Malcolm X, among many others, who help to clarify what it means to be black in America today and what the prospects are for the future.
In a nation deeply divided not only by race but also by politics, religion, and class, "Legacy" is about the ongoing need for integration and wholeness as part of Dr. King's blessed community. It is about a new model of leadership forged from the black experience in America and poised to finally make the promise of democracy and pluralism in America a reality.
About the Producer
"Legacy" is the third film in "The Millennium Dinners" documentary series, produced by Richard Karz. "The Millennium Dinners" employs interdisciplinary, multicultural, and intergenerational VIP dinner gatherings to explore issues of global change through dialogue and background day-in-the-life profiles and vignettes. The series uses the dinner party as a metaphor to examine the role of compromise and consensus in democracy today, the changing nature of community, and the tension between the civilized and the uncivilized, the social and the selfish, in this new era.
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