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At every stage of life, being Black in America is just harder. Not necessarily because of individual choices but because of centuries of structural barriers and systemic racism.
“Our America: Living While Black” is a five-part ABC Owned Television Stations docuseries that goes beyond the statistics to explore inequalities facing Black families across the country in institutions related to policing, health care, education and housing. Explore the extraordinary personal journeys of Black Americans rising above obstacles and pushing through systemic racism to achieve personal and professional success. Their stories are as much about surviving, thriving, and working toward a better future for their families and this country.
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SVP, Content Development, ABC Owned TV Stations
Anchor, WPVI Philadelphia
TAMALA edwards
In my role as a writer and editor it meant a lot to me to really react to a rising need from these stories: People want to understand, and they want to figure out ways to move forward. And I firmly believe the more people know, the more they will look for ways to work and come together. Because equality is not pie: Your having more doesn’t mean I have to have less.
Although I'm not a producer, being a community engagement director, gave me the perspective of hearing the people. As a Black woman from the South, I wanted to bring diversity of thought and diversity of perspective to every element of the special as it was being developed.
Monica barnes
Community Engagement Director, WTVD Raleigh-Durham
VP, Talent Development, ABC Owned TV Stations
maxine crooks
I'm extremely passionate about this work. Working behind the scenes, I contributed to revising trailer scripts, promos, graphics, all elements of the special. When it came to the content, we let the people in the story tell their story and give their experience, not what someone else thought they experienced. This special gave full scope to Black people's voices as opposed to a :10 soundbite you see in a newscast.
I'm a first generation immigrant I didn't understand the generational connection because that wasn't my experience so it was incredible for me to hear the stories from descendants of slaves ebracing their history. Working on the project, it was empowering to be in a room with other people of color. In reviewing the stories, we were deliberate and thoughtful we wanted to be better than we ha in the past.
mariel calizo myers
EP, Premium Content & Development, KGO-TV
It was easy to be excited to be part of this project and team because these stories matter. We set out to tell stories that were deeply personal to the people and communities living them, and that’s why more so than any other project I’ve ever worked on, it was critical for me to listen. Every day, this team brought an inspiring level of honesty and vulnerability to help guide how we approached everything from the graphics to scripts to promo elements. We needed to tell all of these stories with that same level of honesty and vulnerability, so as a producer, listening became the most important aspect of my job.
Justin Allen
Sr. Producer, Content Development, ABC Owned TV Stations
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WHY NOW?
For months now we here at ABC have wondered how to get our arms and hearts, our brains and souls around this moment. From the streets to the suburbs, from city blocks to tiny town squares, the pain has been real, sparked by a man on a Midwestern pavement, his life ebbing away over eight minutes and forty-six seconds, calling for his mother under a knee that would not move. Since then Americans have reacted in hurt and horror, the taste of ash on our tongues, as yet another protest steps off or video hits social media or an election cleaves us further in two.
Here we’ve been fascinated by a quiet refrain, repeated by so many: “I didn’t know.” Americans have upended the bestseller list, devouring books on race. Texts and emails have gone out across the racial transom, with a simple plaintive plea: “Can we talk?” People have sat with their own pasts, recalling, sometimes with shame, choices made and things said, before looking, chastened, into their children’s faces. What are we teaching them and what are we leaving them? That is, unless of course, you are Black. In that case, the ugly and the deadly are familiar.
But that’s it, isn’t it: “I didn’t know.” What if we helped people know more, to look into the darker hued faces of their fellow Americans and really see? What if people could see the hidden history, the decisions that make being Black in America harder, and understand this is more than just the end result of choice and accident? And, finally, what if people knew they were powerful, that impotence or ragged, rank fear were not their only options?
For this project to have the greatest heft, I knew it needed to be pinned to facts, to history. But where to begin? Do I start with 20 enslaved souls on the White Lion in 1619? What about Reconstruction and Jim Crow? Then I realized that perhaps the most powerful place to start was in more current times, with policies we all know, like Social Security. It was crafted to protect the American elderly from poverty. What most of us don’t know is that the bill purposely excluded agrarian workers and domestics-- in other words, black people. Now I know why my grandpa Felix and grandma Maggie, my grandpa Eldridge and grandma Josephine all went to their graves destitute, relying on their children, even as they rubbed their arthritic hands, warped by lifetimes of menial labor, till the end.
Then there was the GI Bill, with low interest home loans and scholarships that sent a generation soaring into the middle class. Those degrees meant better jobs. The homes were collateral and an inheritance to pass down. But banks refused to loan to Black GIs and white colleges barred the door.
In fact, housing in particular was a hellish crucible for Blacks. The Federal Housing Authority underwrote mortgages for whites, but excluded Blacks. So whites could seize a suburban dream with a percentage down. But Blacks had to save it up entirely or turn to loan sharks, all for shabbier, smaller homes and lesser services, often on polluted, toxic land. Freeways and bridges were designed to wall them in. Even once Blacks began to get around the redlining and racial covenants, it was often a bitter homecoming, white mobs on their lawns cursing, heaving bricks, and threatening more violence.
So I should consider myself lucky. My parents were among the first Blacks to buy in Riverside Terrace in Houston. We faced no nastiness. Instead we watched the quiet exodus of white neighbors who ran from us, scared of people like my dad, a banker, and my mother, a stay at home mom.
All of this, not a trick of fate, is why “those people” live on “that side” of town. The average black family has only five percent of the wealth of white America. Five percent. This is life on the margin, no cushion, little inheritance. We may live next to you sometimes now, but it’s so much harder for us to live like you. Have some made it out, even thrived? Yes, but please understand: A rose can grow in concrete, but don’t confuse it for a garden.
And so we all exist with this, limping along with that perverse legacy. The stories you see here are meant to show you what that has meant and where it has left us. There are pieces that will show you the hardship. There are pieces that will show you the endurance. There is Black strife, but there is also Black joy. And here’s the thing: We don’t have to stay here. We get to make choices too. We can be the person in the office who asks why on those loans and mortgages. We can ask Chief Acevedo of Houston and others like him to help us remake our police departments into something better for the force and community alike. We can insist that there be regulations and training, so all pregnant mothers get the same concern, no matter what side of town. We can tell a child, even one in a limited circumstance, he has limitless potential, and build a world where that is true.
Here’s to the possibilities of a new world, for my children, your children, all of whom are OUR children. Here’s to that new America Langston Hughes wrote about. We hope you use these pieces to reimagine the map and make a compass. It’s a journey long overdue. Let’s go, together.
"I say it plain/America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath—America will be!"
-Langston Hughes
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HEALTHCARE
In the United States, pregnant Black women are three times more likely to die during childbirth than white women. Part of the reason is the growing number of maternity care deserts in Black neighborhoods, leaving pregnant Black women at risk of not getting the medical care they need.
Learn how systemic inequality impacts pregnant Black women and meet those working to make healthcare accessible to all.
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EDUCATION
The struggles in the education system for Black students have been around for decades. From racism to more severe punishments and a lack of resources, Black students continue to face a gauntlet of challenges in schools that can have a life-long impact.
Meet the Black students, families and educators who are challenging systemic racism pervading our schools to make it work for them and for students of the future.
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INCOME & HOUSING DISPARITIES
Imagine having $26,000 less to live on because of the color of your skin. This is the reality for many Black families in America. The median household income for a Black family in America is $41,511, but it’s $67,937 for a non-Hispanic white family.
“Our America: Living While Black,” explores how housing and a lack of generational wealth plays into economic disparity for Black families.
Antoine Lovell, PhD., a professor at Fordham University in the Bronx and Delaware State University, teaches social policy specializing in housing and homelessness. Lovell shares his story of experiencing homelessness while being raised in New York by a single mother, an experience he says shaped his entire life.
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HONORING THE PAST
Many of us were taught in American history class about Christopher Columbus’ arrival in 1492 and the Mayflower landing in 1620. But many lessons leave out the history of when the first slaves arrived and were traded on American soil in 1619.
For many Black families in America, the history of slavery is also part of their family history. While that history is brutal and tragic, the work and sacrifices of their ancestors is something these families are working to honor and make sure we never forget.
Cheryl McKissack Daniel and Deryl McKissack are the twin sisters and CEOs of McKissack & McKissack, the nation’s oldest Black-owned design and construction firm. Their business has been passed down five generations, starting with their ancestor Moses McKissack who was brought to the country as a slave by a contractor who used him as a builder.
Will Scott, an 80-year-old fourth-generation farmer from Fresno, California, tells the stories of deep-rooted challenges Black farmers face, and how he remains hopeful and is determined to keep the legacy of Black farmers alive and growing.
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POLICING
An ABC Owned Television Stations analysis of FBI arrest data found that police at more than 800 different police departments nationwide – from big cities to small towns – were arresting Black people far more often. According to the ABC review of more than 10 million arrests reported to the FBI, Black people were five times more likely to be arrested than White people in the same community in 2018.
Underlying these police interactions is fear – both Black people fearing any police stop could turn deadly, and the systemic, racist fear of Black men. From a mom to a mayor, see how people are working to change how police see and interact with the Black community.
Hear from Mayor Michael Tubbs, the country’s youngest mayor, representing Stockton, California, a city with over 100,000 residents. When his cousin was murdered, Tubbs returned to Stockton to create positive change and become the city’s first Black mayor.
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Black Women's Healthy Alliance
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Congressional Black Caucus
Black Lives Matter
Black Mommas Matter Alliance
National Assoc. to Advance Black Birth
National Birth Equity Collaborative
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Congressional Black Caucus
Black Lives Matter
Black Mommas Matter Alliance
National Assoc. to Advance Black Birth
National Birth Equity Collaborative
Sister Song
Boys and Girls Club
Aim High
826 National Valencia
Black Girls Code
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Mothers in Charge
Anti-Defamation League
Philadelphia Bail Fund
Youth Reentry Project
Pennsylvania Prison Society
Reclaim Philadelphia
ACLU Pennsylvania
Honoring the past
African American Museum in Philadelphia
Johnson House Historic Site
INCOME & HOUSING DISPARITIES
Economy League
Black and Brown Workers Cooperative
Project HOME
education
Urban League of Philadelphia
Coded by Kids
Center for Black Educators
HEALTHCARE
Black Women's Healthy Alliance
African Family Health Organization
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