Tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by Consumer Cellular. Johnson johnson. Iafinancl Services Firm raymond james. Supporting social entrepreneurs aon their solutis to the worlds most pressing problems. The lemelson foundation, committed to improving lives in the u. S. And developing countries. Supported by the john dee and Catherine T Macarthur foundation , committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. And with the ongoing support of these institutions. This program was me possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Amna the Coronavirus Crisis rages on and so does thwar of words over a top pandemic scientist. E verbal volleys kept coming million infection and topped3. 5 137,000 deaths. Our White House Correspondent begins our coverage. Today, a fresh assessment of the covid19 pandemic. What we need to do is say, we are not going in the right direction now so we have to call a timeout and say, what do we need to do . E amid rsening outbreak, dr. Anthony fauci fes a public rift with the white house. It is a bit bizarre. He spoke out about the white house attacking him over the handling of the pandemic. i canfigure out in my wildest dreams why they would want to do that, but i mean i think they realize now that that was not a prudent thing to do because it is only reflecting negatively on the i cant explain Peter Navarro. He is in a world by himself. Those comments comefter navarro, President Trumps top trade advisor, lashed out found she in a new usa today fauci in a new usa today oped. He said he takes dr. Faucis advi with skepticism and caution and said he has been wrong about everything he has. Interacted with him abo dr. Fauci is a nice man, but hes made a lot of mistakes. White house aides tried to distance the president from snavarro comments. The white house spokesperson says the oped did not go through normal white house clearancerocesses and is the opinion of peter alone. The president also responded. Et that is per navarro. I have a very Good Relationship with dr. Fauci. There has never been a time when two candidates were so different. All this is President Trump is behind in many polls and faces fierce criticism over his own response to the covid19 and yesterday, what was billed as an official white house News Conference quickly morphed into a Campaign Style event. The president spent 63 minutes, mostly criticizing hne november op joe biden. He mentioned biden by name some 30 times. He hit the former Vice President on a range of issues. Joe biden and president oma freely allowed china to pillage our factories, plunder our communities. To jobs. America lost near 10,000 factories while joereiden was vicesident. Think of that. 10,000 factories. To the paris climate agreement. Vice President Biden was a leading advocate of the paris climate accord, which was unbelievably expensive to our country. Biden Campaign Said it was a distraction from what it called President Trumps botched response to the coronavirus pandemic. Ck the rose garden, the president also falsely claimed agains that covid19 infecti are going up only because of increased testing. Think of this, if we didnt do testing, instead of testing over 40 million people, if we did have to testing, we would have half the cases. It is true the u. S. Has conducted the most coronavirus tests, it has also recorded more coronavirus cases and fatalities than any other country the rate of positive tests isin also rising sh number of states. Health experts continue to warn about deteriorating Health Conditions in the u. S. As cases surged across the country. States like california, florida, and texas are reporting almost daily records of new cases. Mechanic congressman to castro democratic congressman Joaquin Castro says what is missing a strong leadership from the top giving the people of texas od advice. Another Trump Administration the white house ordered today. Hospitals to bypass the cdc, whicthe president has repeatedly criticized. Now it wants hospitals to send covid19atient records to a database at the department of health and han services. The white hse says it will streamline data collection, but researchers say it could hinder their ability to access critical information. Amna good to see you. Let me ask you now about something we heard from the white house today. They seem to be distancing the president from that oped written by Peter Navarro, very critical of dr. Anthony fauci. Tells, what more do we know about how the oped came to be and about the white house relati what we have seen is an escalating war between the white house and dr. Fauci. Dr. Fauci has served some five president s before president nd trumpe is very respected. He also said before the oped that the American Public should trust scientists, including himself. R pevarro wrote this oped. There was some reporting by the. Times that President Trump haproved to the oped, but the white house saidis not true, that the president thinks Peter Navarro should not have but that is stl in line with the idea that white house ficials have continued to critize dr. Fauci, including the president himself. What we now kw now is that the white house is trying itself is to spin this to say that the white house has not been trying to take on dr. Fauci. Today, Vice President pence tweeted out a photo of him meeting with d fauci. He has been talking to the Vice President , regular but dr. Fauci has not spoken directly to the president it seems in some months. Amna that rose garden event is getting a lot of attention for a number of reasons. It has been described in a lot of ways. Highly unusual among them. What a aut you . Wh your biggest takeaways . Having been at that event, it was really something to behold. Itas remarkable to see the president transform the rose garden, which has been used for official announcements and policy announcemen for decades, into a Campaign Style venue. The president lashed out at joe biden for 63 minutes. He only took questions for about six minutes. The thesis of the speeches that there are big differences between him and joe biden. Twill say it was remarkab see the president air these grievances in that way. He has not been on the campaign trail very much. As result, we have seen the president use other venues to palk about the cn and make sure people think he is the one waat is best suited to lead the country going f. The other thing i saw as a result of this is people really questioning the ethical decisions. In the white house we s president ao, along with ivanka trump and white house advisors, talk about goya and post pictures of goya products, saying people should be using them. Ive been told by sources that ivanka trump is going to possibly be the focus of the co glaintng forward because they think she violated the hatch act. Amna here was another comment from the president in an interview getting a lot of attention. He was asked about black people being killed byic p and he said more white people are killed by police, which well ue belies the fact that black people are disproportionately killed by police. What has been the reaction to those comments . The president has been someone who has been digging in on culture wars. He is someone who has not wanted to talk about the words sr temic racismy that academic africanamericans are disproportionately impacted by Police Killings. Anafricanamermake up 13 of the u. Population and our 2. 5 times more likely to be killed by police. We saw a lot ofeoe criticizing the president for those comments, including the attorney for the family of george floyd. Theyde said the pre needed to think about the context in the other thing to note is that the president is going to continue to do this. The reaction from the trump campaigns that this is the president being the president and he is a president for allnd americanshouldnt focus only on Police Killings of africanamericans, which activists say is just wrong. Amna a lot to ver at the white house with this president. That is our. White house orrespondent, thanks stephanie we will return to the rest of the program after the latest headlines. New numbers reveal the continuing spread of the covid19 pandemic. Hardhit florida reported 10,000 new cases for a total of 300,000. In oklahoma, a Record Number of new infectionsgo, included rnor kevin stitt, the first governor to test positive in the country. Hospitalizations in that state also hit a record high. Idaho reported a Record Number of new cases in singl day and Los Angeles County hit a Record Number of hospitalizations for a second day in a row. Meanwhile, officials alabama ordered face masks to be worn in public places. Ve or kay ivey spoken montgomery. Co cdc and otherinue to tell us that of all the things we do, wring a mask is the most helpful, especially to slos down communiead. It is the smart thing to do as a person, as a citizen, as one who loves your family, and who loves your neighbor. Stepnie around the world, several states inmp inded new lockdowns and hong kong added new restrictions. But in paris, visitors are once again welcome at ofe top floor he eiffel tower and at disneyland paris. Edth have been clor months. The largest u. S. Retailer, walmart, announced it will start requiring customers where face covengs inside it stores. The policy affects more than 5000 locations, including sams club stores. Roughly 65 of it stores are in areas that already mandate Face Coverings. Aassive hack attack on twitter affected prominent politicians, business moguls, and celebrities today, including former president obama and former Vice President joe, bid plus bill gates, elon musk, warren buffett, michael bloomberg, and kanye west. Their accounts set o tweets soliciting bitcoin donations. Twitter responded by locking down numerous accounts, but says tonight most accounts are able to tweet again with spotty functionality. President trump is easing a 50yearold mandateor environmental reviews of major infrastructure projects. In atlanta today, mr. Trump said speeding up approval for chemical plants, pipelines, and highways would chart a path to. Economic reviv youre going to get your answers quickly. One way or the other, i if the answa big beautiful yes, you will Start Construction immediately. You willotait around for 10, 12, 20 years. Our bridges will no longer be a sign of shame. They will be a source of pride. Stephanie the predent wants to cutfe review time to years rather than decades. A shakeup in therump 2020 campaign was announced tonight amid falling poll numbers, the president announced he has replaced his and pen manager brad parr scale with bill steffy and, if stepian, a veteran gop operative. Parscale will stay in and oversee the digital strategy. Some marquee u. S. Senate match are set after tuesdays primaries. In alabama, republicans nominated former auburn football coach Tommy Tuberville omeref oversessions. He will take on democratic senator doug jones. In maine, democrat sarah gideon won her primary to face senator susan collins. Texas democrats picked former air force pilot mj hager to take on republican senatojohn cornyn. Congressman Steve Watkins s cing three criminal char voter fraud. They include illegal voting and lying to invesgators. Watkins had listed a ups postal box as his residence before a19 ocal election. He has a republican primary nex month in his r a second term. S. Supreme Court JusticeRuth Bader Ginsburg is back home after being hospitalized. She spent the night at Johns Hopkins in baltimore, where doctors cleaned a bile duct stent. She is now doing well. Ginsburg is 87. She has had cancer twice in addition to other Health Issues in recent years. The family of george floyd filed a federal civil rights lawsuit today against minneapolis and the four Police Officers involved in his killing. He died in Police Custody last may. The familys attorney said it goes just beyond onefficer. It was not just the knee of officer Derek Chauvin on george floyd snack for eight minutesge and 46 f ge floyds neckr ght minutes and 46 seconds, but it was the knee of the entire Minneapolis Police department on the neck of george floyd that killed him. Stephanie the suite seeks unspecified damages. The four officers ha been red and are facing criminal charges. Police in atlanta have arrested enager in the death of eightyearold sequoia turner during a Racial Justice protest on the fourth of july. 19yearold julianis conle charged with murder. Police say he fired into an suv, killing the girl. Conleys lawyer says he was armed, but did not shoot. The shooting took place near a wendys restaurant where month by a white pfficer. D last still to come, californians way in on the alarming cases of Coronavirus Infections in their state. How san franciscos chinatoe has whether pandemic despite its dense population. The demoatic republic of congo finally defeats ebola, only to face covid19. And much more. This is pbs newshour west from weta studios in washington and in the west at thealter Cronkite School of journalism from Arizona State university. Amna california may have been among the earliest states to respond to the covid pandemic, but it is now struggling mightily. State officials announced yesterday more than 140 people died, more than 6700 are hospitalized, and the number of infections set a new singlea record. The governor has responded with a new series of shutdowns and restrictions to try to battle the outbreaks andf two californias Largest School districts will begin the year with Remote Learning. We are going to focus on the with the stories of people who live there and theyreealing with the risks, anxiety,nd impact of what is happening now. My name is rhonda evans. Ai ha0yearold daughter. We live in oakland, california. She goes to redwood day school. Im queenie read and this is my husband michael. We are the owners of poppy and rose in downtown los angeles. Im john lee evans, the president of thean Diego Unified School Board in san diego, california. We recently announced we are going to begin the school year completely online no august 31. My name is john, we have three locations, one in laguna beach, one in corona delmar, one in newport beach, d at the Arts District in downtown los angeles. Im from irvine california. I have two daughters. One is 18 and just graduated from high school. The other is 12 and she will be tering the seventh grade. I live in oakland, california. Im a Public School teacher. There is a lot of uncertainty right now and w have been trying to follow this really closelover the past few weeks because school is approaching. It is only a month away and we are getting a ton of conflicting information and and there is a lot of uncertainty. In june, california was opening bars, haircut places, all kinds of things were opening up and we were very optimistic at that point. Ncehen, the virus has gone way up. An we read the 16 pagel that the Los Angeles Health department put out ande were like, this is stupid. It is impossible. It is not impossible, but even if i put all those protocols in pl, i wouldt feel safe, so i what i force my employee to go deal with the customer as they are eating and touching and drinking and n think that y are not going to necessarily potentially get someone sick . Ti we are sort of antici that and looking like we are probably going to have to pull l the tables back in, lock them up, and go back to just a window handing bags of food out. Mo it is veryonal on the aff. It is frightening, actually. We cant plan anything. You cant pl anything. I think hybrid model, which would include going to school two days a week with social distancing guidelines in place, spacing kids apart, and having masks required, i would feel sowhat at ease. I think masks protect children and others. Teachers. D for our need to keep them safe. We just found out last week that the Oakland Unified School district is going to sh rt the year wstance learning, but that we areng g to reassess every four weeks. So after the first four weeks, there is the possibility of maybe changing that. That is pretty much all weve been told. [laughter] it is a decision that weve made just in the last couple of weeks, actually, that we wont send her to school regardless of what happens, so the expectation is that therwill be some Remote Learning option and we would take advantage of that, t part of a challenge for us in particular is that my husband has lung and heart disease, so we are a family that is very vulnerable. Opening schools is one of the most important things for our society, but one of the most complex. We make no bones about the fact that distancelearning is inferior to in class learning, so we do not do this lightly. We know there are a lot of disadvantages. Canada and the u. K. And a lot of others actually decrease the infectio it is frustrating see america do everything opposite. As you heard, the is still a lot of uncertainty about the leaders are still figuring out the best path forward. In oakland, everything from restaurants to the new school year are now being evaluated. Mayor, welcome. Thank you for making the time lets begin with where california was several wirks ago as the in the nation to shut down. It is now one of the countrys epicenters. When you look at your community in oakland, what went wrong . I will start with what went we. We were the first to shut everything down and we haveof bn onhe most conservative counties in the whole country about real thinning. But what we have struggled with and i think the entire nation is struggling with how hard it is to get everyone to comply with the health orders, to avoid family gatherings, to church, to keep that Face Covering on, and to avoid going out. And when you do to keep that social distance. In are sa lot of trouble with people complying with those orders and peopl that are having to work outside of the home reallyfraid to get tested, to stay home if they are sick. A lot of fear and uncertainty now. I want to ask you about some those people because there has been a huge achievement of people in california to try to get people to act responsibly Governor Newsom put out a video featuring another a number of former governors. Theres evidence that the surges driven by essential workers, lot of them from the latinx community, who cannot afford to isolate when they get sick. Do you think you have done senough toport those members of the community . We have to do more. The disparities by geography and race are horric. It shows that we dont have the right support system in place. The fact that workers dont know that they csu get financial ort, food, distancing for eir families, free testing, that is on us. We have to improve these systems because we knew going into this that those particular populations were already so vulnerable. That is why i joined wi other mayors recently to advance guaraned income. That is one of the policy changes that really could have help people know that they would have income coming in even at work. We have to continue those extraordinary unemployment benefits, those are making a difference. Then t we haveo bring testing to those communities. In ways that they trust. Not always requiring an online appointment. Allowing walk ups. Those are some of the things we are doing inakland. Ey are making a difference, but weve got to do more. Should mention in some of the voices we heard earlier, there was a lot of concern around schools reopening and Oakland Unified School district announced schools will start on august 10 with all remote learni and then take at least a month or so to get schools safely up to speed so students can return in person. Given where things are now,f the situation doesnt change, do going back to school this fall in oakland . I dont. I think leaders at the School District were wise to heed the concerns of teachers and parents. That it is not yet safe. What we have been doing is to make sure that our students kee. Learni at the end of last school year, we had 25,000 households that is nearly half of the school populareon that ot adequately equipped to engage in distancelearning. I want to thank the Generous Community in oakland. When we launched our oakland undivided campaign, in just six days, we raised 13 million, including a10 million personal contribution from jack dorsey, to ensure that every family would have the device, the internet cnection, and the chnical support to actually engage inng distancelear, so we are working around the clock to make sure that what is a health driven decision does not put our kids behind in their education. Mayor, we have heard from some other local lders, including Los Angeles Mayor garcetti, that he thinks it still could mean a compte shutdown in his city if the infections dont slow. Ee you that happening in oakland . I do and i know this is difficult. Count on government for predictability and stability, bulethere is nothing predict about this virus. While we still dont ha a cure or treatment, we have to continue to understand that we have to put people before profits, we have to put health first, and take directions from our scientid health professionals, not our politicians. This is a very difficult me for everyone. I know everyonend is tired frustrated, but the virus is not. We have to ctinue to be open to these directives that feel withoutrd warning, that are to comply with, but absolutely must be done to save lives and prevent suffering. That is the oakland mayor joining us tonight. Thank you for joining us toght. We hope you and your Community Stay safe. Thank you. We are staying in california now, whereas we just heard new outbreaks are leading to a steady new increase in dths and outbreaks. One communit is succeeding in keeping the virus at bay, offering potential lessons when you start taking action early. The story comes to us from y porters at the univeitof california, berkeys graduate school of journalism. Here is their report. The Chinese New Year celebration in february in san excitement. As a time of but also a time of fear. The coronavirus was spreading rapidly across china in the first case had just been detected in the united states, causing alarm. We can have an outbreak in chinatown because we have a lot of people going back to chinaw for chinese near. The ceo of Chinese Hospital, and acute care facility in the heart of san franciscos chinatown. The neighborhood was poised for disaster. 15,000 people in the living inck 22 b making it one of the most dense neighborhoods outside of manhattan. Most of its residents are elderly, living in cramped Single Room Occupancy Hotels called sros. Our room is very small in the sro. He is 81 years old and has lived in this sro for more than a year. L we havetle space here beside the bed. We dont have our own o kitchen our own restaurant restroom. Shared spaces like these have led to some of the deadliest outbreaks in the country. I was expecting that wend wod be ied with cases, that we would be into baiting left and right, that we would have very sick patients filling our er. Basically to be overrun. Luckily, that hasnt been the case. Since january, onlyow two chin residents have been hospitalized and there have been fewer than 20 cases of covid19 in the neighborhood, accounting for one ofhe lowest rates in the entire city. They say it was all about preparation. Because the outbreak happened in china fir, so they learned a lot of lessons. Wh dont have to go through that in order to lear to do. In january, the staff was already masking respiratory patients outside the hospital to avoid transmission. Her network inna chi had shifted pallets of ppe to Chinese Hospital in san francisco. Now there is an and they are helping mobilize others. As early as february 1, they teamed up with Community Leaders and city officials to give some of the earliest education on hygiene ansanitation. We can stop this virus. Se local chi media shared the preventative messages widely. Our r communitylized the potential risk early on because a lot of us experienced the sars outbreak and a lot of people died. The manager of far east cafe, one of the largest rintaurants chinatown, shared information with coworkers and customers. Restaunt, kitchen, and in outside. I also told the staff. The restaurant is closed for business right now. They are instead using the kitchen to further keep the virus at bay. We are making a few hundred meals aayor elderly residents in sro. Th sups minimized the shared kitchen and the chance of being affected. T i has in some ways been tth simple thing have kept the infection rates low. Hot meals, advanced cleaning. Cleaning the kitchen, bathrooms, and floors twice a dain the building. We stay in our rooms as much as possible because we are scared. Recently, Chinese Hospital gave free tests to residents. We dont have a vaccine yet, we dont have a cure, meaning that outbreaks can still happen anytime, so we cannot let our guard down, so we still nd to stay vigilant. M still afraid. There have been cases in other tos in the city, so we ha be more careful. We have to quarantine that person if they test positive. They can get treated and it can all the residts in this building tested negative for the coronavirus and testing getting ahead will be essential for the eventual openingre ening of the neighborhood. We have brought you a number of stories on the devastating Ebola Outbreak in the democratic republic of congo, but the end of june brought good news. The who announced that the outbreak was over. Our special correspondent spa time when the outbreak was raging and Health Workers were caught in the middle of a deadly war. Tonight, in partnership with the Global Health reporting cter, the latest report on the new health challenge, covid19. In the late spring, these Health Workers were going how is your head . Are you vomiting . Asking questis and checking for fever. Your temperature is good. We will be back tomorrow to check it out. This was the final chapter of the ebola epidemichat rocked the area, killing more than 2200 people in the last two years. The ebola treatment centers, once overflowing, now sit empty. But even as children turn this one into a makeshift playground, there is nrest for the weary. The new threat is coronavirus. We saw that in the west covid19 is killing hundreds of people today. It is even more dangerous than d. Ola. We are very afr i met this man last year when he wdi l the charge against ebola. He helped find the first effective treatment. Tow, he is heading up the nationwide effor contain covid. T ebola showt politicians need to call on scientists in a crisis t andhe Scientific Community should not disappoint. The first case was detected in the capital. A lockdown began three weeks later. But aer fierce complaints, it was loosened in mid may. Even as new infections kept going up. An amecan epidemiologist who has run research and training ogram in drc for nearly 20 years. The real picture of what is going on in the interior of the country is difficult to paint without widespread access to testing, really good disease understanding and an understanding of what is going on on the ground. Despite vast mineral wealt aincluding gold, diamond cobalt, or in part because of that weah, drc has a long history of suffering. Brutal rule by belgians, local dictators, corruptions, and civil war. Life expectancy here is among the lowest in the world. Ewhat is the state of ealth system in congo right now . Theealth system is very weak. Outbreaks are detected very late. Because the Health System doesnt work, doesnt function. Es but they say suagainst ebola shows it is not hopeless. What is the message for you theo tellorld now about ebola . Now, we have the vaccine. We have treatment. Ebola is now incurable disease. A curable disease. In late june, the outbreak was declared over. We will have small, sporadic outbreaks, but it will be daughter. S to me as his my wedding photo is in hisce of she has been working alongse him since 2002, trying to build up drcs publichealth capacity, training doctors and nurses to spot and respond to oureaks. It is going to be investing in people and all of these young scientists they have trained over te who are really the future of outbreak prevention and control. They said the critical challenge iso omp out epidemics while they are still small. You get it while it is still just aau spark b once you have a wildfire,er it is difficult to contain. That is exactly what happened with ebola in eastern drc. Containing it took more than two years of grueling effort in the midst of a civil war. The fighting has not stopped and health care is still lowtech. Congo is not are place w you were going to have great access to vaccines and therapeutics early in. The key in a place like the drc is having adequate access to testg, contact tracing, being able to isolate individuals who people around em. Quarantine the theast majority of ronavirus k says cases are in one area. They are getti ready and others, making masks. They hope the hard lessons of sebola wick. We shouldespect the social distancing and they tell us not to forget washing hands like we were doing for ebola prevention. This is a disease we cant resist. Can kill us all. In a place where nothing comes easy, covid19 could prove to be the hardest test so far. Pbs newshour. Amna now, we continue our race matters coverage. The first, a story on Major Economic gaps on wealth and thincome. E second, on hollywoods need for better represenf tion on and e screen. Paul starts with a report in of historic disparities africanamerics face and how that history is making the current problems worse. It is part of his regular economic reporting for our Series Making cents. When the rest of the country cusses aalled, we catch the flu. For these days something worse. Covid hit us hard. Pandemic is living dust delivering a knockoutlow to black americans physical, dying at twice the rate of whites. They are also hit harder economically. Africanamericans are concentrated in the areas of the economy hardest hit by covid19. Letnes just look atloyment statistics. There is 14 unemployment among black women. On 16. 3 black men. Compared to 10. 1 for whites. It so happens that blackwhite ployment gap widening wh times are bad is sadly par for the course. In the great depression, and the Great Recession as economist william rors tolde in two. Thousand nine when we entered the recession, africanamericans started with a higher unemployment rat and as we have gone through these last 16 three pandemic, black unemployment had hit a record low of 5. 8 , a fact President Trump often touted. We have the best numbers we have ever had. But cook says black workers stuck in lowwage service jobs and body the old adaget l hired, first fired. The last hired means there is not the ability to accumulate income. That makes africanamericans less able to whether such a storm. I alabamas socalled black belt, the jobless rate is at 20 . So, where other people are able to still survive, work from home, we dont have a whole lot of businesses and industries that allow for that, so the the blackwhite wage gapat. Among men is as large as it was in 1950. We see thatlack men make only . 51 on the dollar relative to white men. No therefore, says one est much less of a cushion to much more likely to need ton be employed places where they are essential workers. So, yes, there would be desperation with respect to trying to findnother job. You need to provide us with s,maou need to provide us with gloves. Starting in march, Amazon Warehouse workers, dispoptionately people of color, staged protests over what they said were unsite working cons. They said we are going by cdc standards. When we called the cdc, they are not. Amazon fired seral of the activists, though the company has since rolled out safety measur. But good protection is still not available to many essential workers. This coronavirus is for real. And we out here a Public Workers doing our job trying to make an nest living to take care of our families. Detroit bus driver Jason Hargrove on march 2 in a facebook video complaining about a passenger. Bus, that stood up, behind the line where they are not supposed to be andoughed for five times and did not cover up her mouth. 11 days later, hargrove, a 50yearold father ofed six, of covid19. Africanamericans likegr hare make up only 13 or so of then, u. S. Populatut nearly double that percentage of transportation, warehouse, and delivery workers. Just imagine what happens to a familys finances when that worker is incapacitated or worse. The problem is africanamerican finances have been deteriorating for years. Wealth actually has receded for africanamericans since the last Great Recession and in fact parities areh d larger than they were 20 years ago. Heypical white family has a net worth 40 one times that of a typical black family. To a large extgat, the wealth is a function of policy. The u. S. Governmenrl after war ii subsidized families w to buy houses,ch is a key way that people build wealth, but the wayy the polics to get these lowiest loans,id you have to live in a predominantly white neighborhood. Saying that white neighborhoodsy were essentially better Housing Investment then i looked at the map of columbus, my home. Right in that giant red box. Black neighborhoods were literally redlined on maps for decades, offlimits to the Housing Investment which limits wealth builds wealth. Could show you every city in the united states. It is the same in indianapolis, the same in cleveland, the same in detroit. During the crash of 2008, those neighborhoods became hot thats of sleazy, subprime loans and often as a result, foreclosure. Less wealth, and thus less access to capital for buying a homeui oring a business. Having operating capital is everything. We are not afforded the same kinds of opportunities because we are looked at as the same for there to be not a risk. Partner is a craft cocktail lounge. In a buildg his family owns in a less fashionable part of town. Has a black business owner, there are still places that you cannot get police no matter what. But they dont say we are nyo leasing tbecause you are black. This is2, not 1f course they arent saying that. [laughter] bei locked outf high traffic areas means less revenue even during the good times. Throw a pandemic into the mix and you now need access to more capital get through this Dumpster Fire of the year. Africanamerican businesses come to the pandemic smaller. I the preside ceo of the National Urban league less of a reserven cash and money and therefore harder to weather the storm. What is so infuriating to africanamericans is that this is a lacy of an intentional pass. Slavery and jim crow. Most notably, segregation. Segregation is the secret source that eates racial inequality in the united states. Harvard sociologist David Williams in a 2017 ted talk. If you could statistically eliminate residential segregation, you would completely erase blackwhite differences in income, education, and unemployment. And williams might have added perhaps the differences leading to a very differht covid19 de rate. It is the reasons behind that death rate that we will explore in our next report. This week cbs announc it is committing 25 of its budget for tv scriptedevelopment to ojects from creators and producers who are black, indigenous, and people of color. The networks that a goal of 40 representation in writers rooms for the Television Season beginning i othe fallf 2021, all part of a bigger reckoning across hollyod since the death of george floyd sparked nationwide protests over Police Brutality and racial inequality. Jeffrey brown has the story for our arts and culture series canvas. One of the first casualties was popular Reality Tv Show cops. It had faced criticism in the pa for normalizing heavyhanded behavior by t police especially against africanamericans. But for more than 30 years, it remained on the air untilast month, when the paramount network says itg was removine show from its schedule. Soon after, the even more Popular Series live pd, one of the highest rated shows on basic cable, m the same fate. At moment when policing is the subject of protests and demands for change, hollywood is beg forced to reexamine i longrunning love affair with cop shows and mh more. Npr tv critic there are a lot of discussions now about what kind of stories hollywood is telling, who gets to tell themand how that can change. Make cop shows less propagandistic for Law Enforcement and try to make them more realistic. Try to increase the diversity and shows the dont have diversity. T reexamination of recent weeks has at times become quite personal. I realize i cant not say im horrified and im sorry and im embarrassed. As latenight stars and popular sitcoms have ulologized or pled episodes because of the use oflackface. Now on the table, questions of content, but also representation in front of and behind the camera. I think what has happened isl that phave realized that they can no longer go along to get along. It is a sad fact of hollywood. But often the way to get film and tv projects to make strides of diversitys that you have t embarrass them publicly. You have to create the sense that the audience will no longer tolerate what they are doing. And then they will turn aroundl and they whange. One Prominent Group headed by Kendrick Samson and Tessa Thompson is calling for changes both in the larger society, such as broad divestment from police, itself, including how police and people of color are portrayed and ensuring more behind the scenes roles for africanamerican writers and producers. They are not new issues for hoywood. Recall the oscars so whitemp gn of recent years. But they now come with a new urgency. I was an executive at columbia pictures 30 years ago. The is still not that much inclusivity at the table where it happens. One veteran producer whose work includes boys in the hood , hustle and flow, and ar white people, says hollywood must take response ability for its role in shaping our history. The mement is about creating content that humanizes black people, that illustrates the long history of racism in our country, and slavery, and how we came to this point in time, and how we are still of domination, of s of slavery, brutality. That includes taking a fresh look at one of the most acclaimed and successful films in history gone with the wind. Watched and loved by millions since its releasen 1939, it also heavily criticized fourth romaicized portrait of the confederacy and slavery. When you see the opening crawl that says what a beautifua place this waslace of master and slave, that feeling itperpetuates supremacy. Pure and simple. I dont believe you can just take these movies and burn them. That is just not what should happen we have to rind ourselves who we were when we made that movie. And who ware today. Gone wh the wind was the highly anticipated adaptation to that end, hbo max pulled the film from its library and brought it back packaged with a new introduction by film historian and Turner Classic Movies host jacqueline stewart, explaining its significance, but also its bigotry. The films treatment of this world through a lens of slavery, as well as the legacies of any polity. Also part of the repackaging, a panel discsion of the film. We have a system in america where we label films, they are to adult, they are too violent, this or that. That movie is racist and it should be labeled as such. And then watch the movie knowing that that ishe context for it. A change in hollywood is possible, but a responsibility also lies with of entertainment. S because we have so much media now, peopleave more power than they have ever had. You can Say Something on twitter that becomes a meme that can threaten the profitability of a 100 million franchise. So along with all that power comes a certainy responsibilit to consume wisely, be aware of what you are consuming. N other words, amid continued protests, watch your screens carefully and make your own decisions about hollywoods portrait of our world. , for the pbs newshour, im jeffrey brown. Amna and tonight on the pbs newshour online, William Brangham spoke with aubc Health Expert about what returning to school could look like for millions of studentin the coming months, especially as the coronavirus case counts continue to climb in the united states. That conversation is on our website. Pbs. Org newshour. That is the newshour for night. Join us online and again here tomorrow evening. 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