Moyers and Company. An Optimist for Our Times
Description
Angela Blackwell has spent her adult life advocating practical ways to fulfill America's promise of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" for all. Now, with our middle class struggling, poverty rising, and inequality growing, the founder and chief executive officer of PolicyLink, an influential research center, finds reasons for hope. In this edition of Moyers & Company, Bill Moyers and Blackwell discuss what fuels her optimism. "I'm not discouraged, and I wouldn't even dream of giving up, because we're at a moment right now where I think we have more possibility than I've seen in my adult lifetime," Blackwell tells Moyers. "So many people who are being left behind are now in places where they have voice and influence.... America doesn't want to talk about race, but the future is a five-year-old Latina girl. It is a seven-year-old black boy. What happens to them will determine what America looks like.
Runtime
1 57 min
Subjects
- Civil rights (308)
- Wealth (179)
- Power (Social sciences) (152)
- Racism (548)
- Social classes (184)
- Ethnicity (289)
Database
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