“Have Black Americans had a fair shot at the American dream?” acclaimed journalist Bob Herbert asks. The question is answered in Against All Odds: The Fight for a Black Middle Class, a documentary that probes the harsh and often brutal discrimination that has made it extremely difficult for African-Americans to establish a middle-class standard of living. “Whites talk about working hard and playing by the rules. But Blacks have always had to play by a different, hateful set of hideously unfair rules. Working hard has never been enough for Black Americans to flourish,” Herbert says in the film’s opening. With a compelling narrative, dramatic historical footage and a series of deeply personal interviews, Herbert explores why this disturbing and often tragic state of affairs exists a century and a half after slavery and a half-century after the heyday of the civil rights movement.

NOLA Code: AOFB

FOR STATIONS PARTICIPATING IN JOINT MASTER CONTROL/CENTRAL CAST IN SYRACUSE, THE JMC ID NUMBER IS:
JH-01755626 - 56-minute version
JH-01716202 - 75-minute version


Under Additional Assets- Video, you will find the program's 30-second promo/trailer, a 75-minute version of the program and five clips from the film.