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[https://www.pbs.org/about/about-pbs/blogs/news/new-documentary-tackles-impact-of-racism-on-public-housing/ by pbs publicity | [https://www.pbs.org/about/about-pbs/blogs/news/new-documentary-tackles-impact-of-racism-on-public-housing/ by pbs publicity | ||
Pasadena, CA – January 10, 2020 – East Lake Meadows, the public housing project opened by the Atlanta Housing Authority in 1970 and demolished a generation later, is the subject of a new documentary by Sarah Burns and David McMahon (THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE, JACKIE ROBINSON) that tackles the impact of racism on housing while also exploring the daily lives of those who called East Lake Meadows home. EAST LAKE MEADOWS: A PUBLIC HOUSING STORY, which is executive produced by Ken Burns, will air on PBS on Tuesday, March 24, 2020 (8:00 p.m. ET; check local listings). The film trailer is available on PBS’s YouTube page here. | Pasadena, CA – January 10, 2020 – East Lake Meadows, the public housing project opened by the Atlanta Housing Authority in 1970 and demolished a generation later, is the subject of a new documentary by Sarah Burns and David McMahon (THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE, JACKIE ROBINSON) that tackles the impact of racism on housing while also exploring the daily lives of those who called East Lake Meadows home. EAST LAKE MEADOWS: A PUBLIC HOUSING STORY, which is executive produced by Ken Burns, will air on PBS on Tuesday, March 24, 2020 (8:00 p.m. ET; check local listings). The film trailer is available on PBS’s YouTube page here. | ||
=====Sierra Club calls out founder John Muir for racist views===== | |||
[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/sierra-club-calls-out-founder-john-muir-for-racist-views by Brian Melley 22/7/20 PBS NEWS] | |||
Executive Director Michael Brune said Wednesday that it was “time to take down some of our own monuments” as statues of Confederate officers and colonists are toppled in a reckoning with the nation’s racist history following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. | |||
