. we have to ask ourselves when was the last time we talked about race with somebody of another race? if the answer is never, we re part of the problem. this is like a bomb we re sitting on a bomb. you can have a black person killed with a video this is what you ll get this is a revolution. we want peace. should people be frightened wake up it s 1991, wake up. we talked at each other and about each other a long time it s high time we all began talking with each other. no justice, no peace can we all get along? . . . . . about 20ments from now, david dingic kins now mayor is scheduled to step out from city hall and take public oath of office and become new york city s 106th mayor and the first african-american mayor. i intend to be all of new york. new year s day in 1990 is a start to the decade, and culmination of some civil rights struggles of 1960 s people are starting to see tangible expert the grandson of slaves did you ever see a black
go home! it s like a bomb. we re sitting on a bomb. you can have a black person killed with a video, then this is what you ll get. this is a revolution. should people be frightened? i think people should wake up. it s 1991. wake up. we have talked at each other and about each other for a long time. it s high time we all began talking with each other. no justice, no peace! can we all get along? in about 20 minutes from now david dinkins, who is now mayor dinkins, is scheduled to step out from city hall and take a public oath of office and become new york city s 106th mayor and the city s first african-american mayor. i intend to be the mayor of all the people of new york. david dinkins being inaugurated on new year s day in 1990 is an auspicious start to the decade and really a culmination of the civil rights struggles of the 1960s. people are starting to see tangible benefits of that struggle. a grandson of slaves was sworn in today a
peace. should people be frightened? people should wake up. it s 1991. we have talked at each other and about each other a long time. it is high time we started talking with each other. no justice, no peace. can t we all get along? in about 20 minutes from now, david dinkins is scheduled to take a public oath of office and become new york city s next mayor and the first african american mayor. i intend to be the mayor of all the people of new york. david being inaugurated on new year s day 1990 is an auspicious start to the decade. and the culmination of some of the civil rights struggles of the 1960s . people are seeing tangible benefits of that struggle. a grandson of slaves was worn? as the nation s first elected black governor. i was born in the 30s so you know i didn t think nothing like that was going to happen. after we saw hundreds of black elected officials, the reality set in that we made a step, but we had not gotten all the way to where we wante
ago, her in an is ana daveare, smith. twilight bay is my name. twilight is one of 26 people deveer smith becomes in this one woman tore des for. that was that a wasn t us i thought of the los angeles riots as like this explosion of like a trunk or house that exploded and everything is all over the place. then as an artist it s this credible opportunity to put it together in a way that makes sense. there s so many different kinds of us, of americans now, with so many different kinds of ideas about what is just and what is not. whenever you have a volatile period of racial strive in america, there s a big pop culture surge of black voice i m hopeful and heart ended and flat erred people want to come and see this which is about race, which is this big taboo, the comfortableness of
i asked if he was worried the movie would not appeal to a broad audience. if it s good enough, people are going to come. the minute black artists start thinking about crossover, they start diluting the work, watering it down, and the work suffers. when we look at the john singletons and the spikes, all the way across the board, this became the era where we took charge of our own culture, our own cultural icons, and telling our own stories expressed either in music or in theater or in cinema. in los angeles, one woman is stirring memories and trying to bring about an understanding of the events that tore that city apart a little more than a year ago. her name is anna devear smith. and she has taken the riot and turned it into theater. twilight bay, that s my name. twilight is one of 26 people deavere smith becomes in this one woman tour de force. that was the mexicans over there. that wasn t us.