Henry Louis Gates Jr., Harvard's chair of Afro-American Studies, travels the length and breadth of the United States to take the temperature of black America at the start of the new century. He explores this rich and diverse landscape, social as well as geographic, and meets the people who are defining black America, from the most famous and influential to those at the grassroots.
Main Cast of America Beyond the Color Line
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Henry Louis "Skip" Gates, Jr. is an American historian, literary critic, filmmaker and public intellectual who...
Secondary Cast of America Beyond the Color Line
Chris Tucker
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Samuel L. Jackson
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Alicia Keys
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Nia Long
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Don Cheadle
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John Singleton
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Colin Powell
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Morgan Freeman
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Franklin Raines
Maurice Ashley
Vernon E. Jordan Jr.
Crew of America Beyond the Color Line
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