
Marlon Riggs
Director

Analyzes the evolution of television's earlier, unflattering portrayal of blacks from 1948 until 1988, when they are depicted as prosperous and as having achieved the American dream, a portrayal that is inconsistent with reality.
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Marlon Riggs
Director

Diahann Carroll
Self

Ruby Dee
Narrator

Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Self

Norman Lear
Self

Sheldon Leonard
Self

Denise Nicholas
Self
Alvin F. Poussaint
Self

Daphne Reid
Self

Tim Reid
Self

Esther Rolle
Self

David L. Wolper
Self

Steven Bochco
Self

Hal Kanter
Self

Marlon Riggs
Writer