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TV in Black: The First Fifty Years (2004)
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Overview
Discover how television has reflected the African American experience in this retrospective of the medium’s first half-century. Actors, writers and historians discuss the image of black America on television from Amos and Andy to the present day. The interviews accompany clips from groundbreaking shows and performances by entertainment pioneers that create a timeline of the portrayal of African Americans throughout TV history.
Length 100 minutes
Actors
Whoopi Goldberg | James Brown | Cab Calloway | Ray Charles | Ruby Dee | Sammy Davis Jr. | Pearl Bailey | Diahann Carroll | John Amos | Harry Belafonte | Willie Best | Lucille Ball | Arsenio Hall | Bill Cosby | Obba Babatundé | Patricia Belcher | Redd Foxx | Muhammad Ali | Michael Jackson | Desi Arnaz | Lena Horne | Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson | Jonelle Allen | Marvin Gaye | Cindy Birdsong | H. Rap Brown