Synopsis
A debate between James Baldwin and Paul Weiss about race inequality.
- Programme: Arena
- Episode: I Am Not Your Negro
- Channel: BBC Four
- Broadcast year: 2016
- History | America, 1713-1975 | Protest, progress and radicalism, 1960-75 | The civil rights movement, 1965-75
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