PBS Special on Racism

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PBS Presents "Banished," Tue, Feb 19. 2008

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/banished/

From the 1860s to the 1920s, dozens of towns and counties across America violently expelled entire African American communities, forcing thousands of black families to flee their homes. A century later, these towns remain all white. BANISHED tells the story of three of these communities and their black descendants, who return to learn shocking histories.

FROM THE FILMMAKER:


"BANISHED is deeply personal. It is deeply personal on a couple of
levels. I was chased out of Charlestown in Boston, MA by a mob of
angry whites simply because I am black. While I was only an
individual, the intention of this mob was to keep the neighborhood
white, not unlike the racial cleansings that I investigate in BANISHED
that happened in the early 1900’s. But I made BANISHED because I
wanted to make a film that explored prospective solutions to the racial
divide. In the horrible history I saw an opportunity for Americans to
consider forms of reparation as a means of reconciliation."
- Marco Williams

[Funkenstein]

Interesting. Thanks for the heads up!