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Image zoom | Credit: Courtesy of Mario Rigby Few people would relish being told where they can and can't go. But that was the reality for African Americans living in the Jim Crow era. From 1936 to 1966,  The Negro Motorist Green Book and subsequent titles helped keep Black travelers and their families safe, with warnings about "sundown towns," where people of color could face intimidation and violence after dark, and recommendations on the hotels, restaurants, and businesses that would we...

I'd like to say there's many different things. right now the 10th anniversary. there's documentaries left and right, and i think the more, the better. but what we did is different. it's not a better. what we did is not a documentary. it's roger smith, one man, on a stage, giving a whole history of who rodney king was. a lot of people don't know who he was. he got beat up and along. that's it. he has a whole life. >> that's right. >> that's what roger's piece gets to. it infos us who this individual was. >> it's coming on netflix next week. >> yes, this week. >> thank you, spike. >> anytime. is...

Another deputy went to talk to mr. spell and said if you don't calm down we will have to put you in a restraint chair. were spell, first time i ever heard this from an inmate, wanted to go into the restraint chair so we obliged him. >> spell neither denies nor recalls requesting the chair. but says he didn't enjoy being confined to it. >> they put me in a hard black plastic chair and strapped me down in it with my hands cuffed behind my back and everything. that just made it worse because i was freaking out even more. >> spell and his girlfriend brooklyn day are accused of rummaging through a ...

>> the jail, however, has offered her a very different opportunity, a spot on the 28 day long substance abuse program but for day it's not an easy decision. >> i know it would help me. it's just my pride. i don't know if i would be able to let myself do that. it's just the fact that people would know, probably all of my family would know where is brooklyn? she is in a rehab. that would be embarrassing to have to say to anyone. coming up -- jack spell and brooklyn day step outside the rules to create a jailhouse e-mail network. >> i can probably get in some kind of trouble if they figured out...

>> well, i really never, ever would have thought that i would be going through this. i didn't even think that i had a problem until i was here and sober and able to realize that. >> brooklyn was a big concern for us when she first came in. for a little girl, brooklyn had been taking a lot of crazy drugs and her life was very chaotic. brooklyn has been able to move to a place where she understands that she has a problem and that she is an addict. and that's not easy for someone at 18 years old. >> but i'm going to admit and say honestly that i -- it's not all out of my system. i know that for a...