go home! it s like a bomb. we re sitting on a bomb. you can have a black person killed with a video, then this is what you ll get. this is a revolution. should people be frightened? i think people should wake up. it s 1991. wake up. we have talked at each other and about each other for a long time. it s high time we all began talking with each other. no justice, no peace! can we all get along? in about 20 minutes from now david dinkins, who is now mayor dinkins, is scheduled to step out from city hall and take a public oath of office and become new york city s 106th mayor and the city s first african-american mayor. i intend to be the mayor of all the people of new york. david dinkins being inaugurated on new year s day in 1990 is an auspicious start to the decade and really a culmination of the civil rights struggles of the 1960s. people are starting to see tangible benefits of that struggle. a grandson of slaves was sworn in today a
i asked if he was worried the movie would not appeal to a broad audience. if it s good enough, people are going to come. the minute black artists start thinking about crossover, they start diluting the work, watering it down, and the work suffers. when we look at the john singletons and the spikes, all the way across the board, this became the era where we took charge of our own culture, our own cultural icons, and telling our own stories expressed either in music or in theater or in cinema. in los angeles, one woman is stirring memories and trying to bring about an understanding of the events that tore that city apart a little more than a year ago. her name is anna devear smith. and she has taken the riot and turned it into theater. twilight bay, that s my name. twilight is one of 26 people deavere smith becomes in this one woman tour de force. that was the mexicans over there. that wasn t us.
in los angeles, one woman is stirring memories and trying to bring about an understanding of the events that tore that city apart a little more than a year ago. her name is anna devear smith. and she s taken the riot and turned it into theater. twilight bay, that s my name. twilight is 1 of 26 people deavere becomes in this one woman tour de force. that wasn t us over looting in the koreans. that was the mexicans over there. that wasn t us. i thought of the los angeles riots as like this explosion of like a trunk or a house that exploded and everything s all over the place. then as an artist it s this incredible opportunity to put it together in way that makes sense. there s so many different kinds of us, of americans now, with so many different kinds of ideas about what is just and what is not. whenever you have a volatile period of racial strife in america, there s always a big pop culture surge of black voices.
charge of our own culture, our own cultural icons and telling our own stories expressed either in music or in theater or in cinema. in los angeles, one woman is stirring memories and trying to bring about an understanding of the events that tore that city apart a little more than a year ago. her name is anna devear smith. and she s taken the riot and turned it into theater. twilight bay, that s my name. twilight is 1 of 26 people deavere becomes in this one woman tour de force. that was the mexicans over there. that wasn t us. i thought of the los angeles riots as like this explosion of like a trunk or a house that exploded and everything s all over the place. then as an artist it s this incredible opportunity to put it
became the era where we took charge of our own culture, our own cultural icons and telling our own stories expressed either in music or in theater or in cinema. in los angeles, one woman is stirring memories and trying to bring about an understanding of the events that tore that city apart a little more than a year ago. her name is anna devear smith. and she s taken the riot and turned it into theater. twilight bay, that s my name. twilight is 1 of 26 people deavere becomes in this one woman tour de force. that was the mexicans over there. that wasn t us. i thought of the los angeles riots as like this explosion of like a trunk or a house that exploded and everything s all over the place. then as an artist it s this incredible opportunity to put it together in way that makes