Bill Moyers' Journal tonight: Racial Inequality

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Racial Inequality

Thursday 19 June 2008

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by: Bill Moyers Journal, t r u t h o u t | Programming Note

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Airdate: Friday, June 20, 2008, at 9:00 p.m. EDT on PBS.

(Check local listings at http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/about/airdates.html.)

This week, as many Americans celebrate "Juneteenth," a special day of recognition commemorating the end of slavery in the United States, Bill Moyers Journal examines racial inequality in America through the prisms of the legacy of slavery and the current socioeconomic landscape. Bill Moyers interviews Douglas Blackmon, the Atlanta bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal, about his latest book, "Slavery by Another Name," which looks at an "age of neoslavery" that thrived from the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II. And Moyers gets perspective from historical and cultural sociologist Orlando Patterson and Glenn C. Loury, an economist and expert on race and social division.