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Hosted by: Dick Gordon Show Originally Aired: 1/14/2004
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Behind the Color Line
Henry Louis Gates
Henry Louis Gates

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The Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr., says African Americans often speak "differently, more openly, when talking with each other behind closed doors." In search of that conversation, Gates traveled the country, asking the famous and not-so famous what's changed for blacks in America today.

South of the line, Gates found that a vast number of African Americans are leaving the North and moving back to Dixie, in many cases, to live in self-segregated communities. Thirty-five years after the death of Martin Luther King, Gates wonders if that's what the civil rights leader had in mind.
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