Are seeing each other in person as opposed to overseas. Everyone if your cell phone volume is turned on which you might turn it off. And ill let you know a little bit about the program. Were going to talk about 35 minutes and then were gonna open it up to audience questions. So i know that you are here to see these two gentlemen not to see me. So come with your questions. Well have about 15 minutes for you. We we should have plenty of time. The title of this panel is a reckoning how systematic how systemically excuse me racism has shaped our history policies and education and were really lucky today to be joined by two of the best writers in this country on history and race currently working adam harris is the author of the state must provide why americas colleges have always been unequal and how to set them, right . This book is a history of a Higher Education in this country, and its a very clear distillation of how much harder black americans have had to fight to get it. It brings t
We watched their children grow and their fortunes change. Now im putting longer hours in, youre getting money, but its not that much, and you say, whats the use . Moyers we saw their work lives upended by the powerful economic and Political Forces that were altering the american landscape. Heres my paycheck. 9,646. 89. Thats poverty. Moyers and as america ushered in a new gilded age, in milwaukee, as in the rest of the country, working people found themselves left behind, barely staying even at best. So now, 22 years in the making, the intimate and revealing story of two American Families. Frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. And by the corporation for public broadcasting. Major support ffrontline is provided by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information is available at macfound. Org. Additional funding is provided by the park foundation, dedicated t
We watched their children grow and their fortunes change. Now im putting longer hours in, youre getting money, but its not that much, and you say, whats the use . Moyers we saw their work lives upended by the powerful economic and Political Forces that were altering the american landscape. Heres my paycheck. 9,646. 89. Thats poverty. Moyers and as america ushered in a new gilded age, in milwaukee, as in the rest of the country, working people found themselves left behind, barely staying even at best. So now, 22 years in the making, the intimate and revealing story of two American Families. Frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. And by the corporation for public broadcasting. Major support ffrontline is provided by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information is available at macfound. Org. Additional funding is provided by the park foundation, dedicated t
I can tell youve been down south a long time. Youre saying, yes, maam. Moyers hard workers, caring parents, faithful churchgoers trying to secure a foothold in the middle class. But as we came back to visit them over the years, we watched their children grow and their fortunes change. Now im putting longer hours in, youre getting money, but its not that much, and you say, whats the use . Moyers we saw their work lives upended by the powerful economic and Political Forces that were altering the american landscape. Heres my paycheck. 9,646. 89. Thats poverty. Moyers and as america ushered in a new gilded age, in milwaukee, as in the rest of the country, working people found themselves left behind, barely staying even at best. So now, 22 years in the making, the intimate and revealing story of two American Families. Frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. And by the corporation for public broadcasting. Major support ffrontline is provided by
Spending the rest of my life with him. And our expectations were, i thought, you know, you find the man that you like and get married and have a family, and get a house, a little white picket fence, you know, all those little fairy tale type things. Um, some of it came true, but some of it as far as the bumpy roads, i didnt expect either. You know, i knew they werent gonna be all peaches and cream, but you dont think of all the bad things when youre younger. Moyers once upon a time, Terry Neumann and her husband tony dreamed of a good, simple life. When we got married, we had started a family right away. He was working factory and i stayed home. And he made pretty good money when we were first married, you know, for a young couple with one little one on the way. Grab a couple and crack em in the pan. I dont know, we had a good time with one child, so we had another one, and there was adam. You know, and then i got pregnant with karissa in 86 and he had lost his job. Then he got hired a