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Making Black America
What is “Black Love?”
"A love that allows for grace... creating spaces for one to be their whole self, all the time." "Radical love... radical empathy." -- These are some of the ways "Making Black America" panelists respond when Henry Louis Gates, Jr. asks, "What is Black love?"
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From Black Power to Black Twitter hour four reveals safe spaces created by Black America.
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Hour three uncovers vast social networks created by Black Americans to defeat Jim Crow.
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Hour two explores the nation within a nation built by Black Americans out of necessity.
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Hour one details how African Americans have created spaces for survival, pleasure and joy.