CNN PRESENTS — Black in America

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Four men from Little Rock Central High School’s Class of 1968, and their sons and grandsons, are featured in The Black Man. Credit: Jake Herrle/CNN	The Houston-based Smith family is featured in The Black Woman & Family as a story of success and growth. Credit: Justin LaRose/CNN	James “Butch” Warren, from Little Rock Central High School’s Class of 1968, and his sons Justin and Jonathan, are all featured in The Black Man. Credit: Jake Herrle /CNN

A Rand family picture at their reunion in Lodi, Texas. Black and white family members pose with a picture of their common white ancestor. Credit: Jake Herrle/CNN	Momentum Worldwide’s Vice President of Music, Malcolm Gilliam, is featured in The Black Man. Credit: Justin LaRose/CNN	Emmy®-nominated spoken word artist Jon Goode appears in Black in America. Credit: Edward M. Pio Roda /CNN

Sabra Abdullah talks about the stress of living in poverty for The Black Woman & Family. Credit: Justin LaRose/CNN	Professor and Associate Director of the W.E.B. Dubois Institute, Roland Fryer contributes expert analysis for The Black Man. Credit: Jake Herrle/CNN	Single mother Ira Johnson lives in Houston, TX and is raising five children. She’s profiled for The Black Woman & Family. Credit: Justin LaRose/CNN

Rubystein McGhee and Martha Hix, matriarchs of the black and white Rand families, met for the first time in The Black Woman & Family. Credit: Jake Herrle/CNN	Corey Mackie lives in Brooklyn, NY and has struggled with unemployment. He is featured in The Black Man. Credit: Justin LaRose/CNN	Eric Kennedy Sr. is raising his son Eric Jr. as a single father in The Black Man. Credit: Justin LaRose/CNN

CNN anchor and special correspondent Soledad O’Brien speaks with former Cosby Show actor Joseph C. Phillips for The Black Man. Credit: Justin LaRose/CNN	James “Butch” Warren, from Little Rock Central High School’s Class of 1968, is featured in The Black Man. Credit: Jeremy Freemen/CNN	Natalie Rand Weller is featured in The Black Woman & Family. Credit: Jake Herrle/CNN

Four men from Little Rock Central High School's Class of 1968 and their sons and grandsons are featured in The Black Man. Credit: Jake Herrle/CNN	Rubystein McGhee and Martha Hix are third cousins from the Rand family and met for the first time at their family reunion in Lodi, Texas, as seen in The Black Woman & Famiy. Credit: Jake Herrle/CNN	Members of the Rand Family reunite in Lodi, Texas, as seen in The Black Woman & Family. Credit: Jake Herrle/CNN


CNN anchor and special correspondent Soledad O'Brien reports from the field for Black in America. Credit: Jake Herrle/CNN	An inmate at San Quentin State Prison in California shows CNN anchor and special correspondent Soledad O'Brien his high school diploma in The Black Man. Credit: Justin Larose/CNN	Author and professor Dr. Michael Eric Dyson contributes expert analysis for The Black Man. Credit: Justin Larose/CNN


CNN anchor and special correspondent Soledad O'Brien interviews actor, director, and producer Spike Lee for The Black Man. Credit: Lorenzo Bevilaqua/CNN	Actress and talk show host Whoopi Goldberg discusses issues concerning black women in The Black Woman & Family. Credit: Justin Larose/CNN	CNN anchor and special correspondent Soledad O'Brien interviews Essence Magazine editor Angela Burt-Murray for The Black Woman & Family. Credit: Lorenzo Bevilaqua/CNN


CNN anchor and special correspondent Soledad O’Brien interviews members of the Rand family at their family reunion in Lodi, Texas, as these third cousins discover their roots and meet for the first time in Black in America: The Black Woman & Family. Credit: Jake Herrle/CNN	CNN anchor and special correspondent Soledad O'Brien and National Civil Rights Museum President Beverly Robertson examine the rifle, which prosecutors say fired the bullet that killed Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, Tenn. on April 4, 1968. The museum is located at the Lorraine Motel, the site of the assassination. Credit: Jake Herrle/CNN	CNN anchor and special correspondent Soledad O'Brien stands on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn., where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated 40 years ago on April 4, 1968. O'Brien reports for CNN's multi-month Black in America series, which begins with a two-hour documentary on the assassination of King. Credit: Jake Herrle/CNN


CNN anchor and special correspondent Soledad O’Brien reports from the San Quentin State Prison in California. Credit: Justin LaRose/CNN	The Lorraine Motel, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed 40 years ago on April 4, 1968. The motel is now home to the National Civil Rights Museum. Credit: Jake Herrle/CNN	CNN anchor and special correspondent Soledad O’Brien interviews an incarcerated man at the San Quentin State Prison in California for Black in America: The Black Man. Credit: Justin LaRose/CNN


CNN anchor and special correspondent Soledad O’Brien interviews an incarcerated man at the San Quentin State Prison in California for Black in America: The Black Man. Credit: Justin LaRose/CNN	Actress Vanessa L. Williams talks about race, role models and achievement for Black in America: The Black Woman & Family. Credit: Tom Larson/CNN	Forty years after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., CNN anchor and special correspondent Soledad O’Brien reports a landmark six-hour documentary series Black in America. Credit: CNN


Forty years after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., CNN anchor and special correspondent Soledad O’Brien reports a landmark six-hour documentary series Black in America. Credit: CNN	CNN anchor and special correspondent Soledad O’Brien in front of Central High School in Little Rock, Ark. Credit: Jake Herrle/CNN	CNN anchor and special correspondent Soledad O’Brien speaks with former Cosby Show actor Joseph C. Phillips, who is shown here with his children. Credit: Justin LaRose/CNN


Journalist and social commentator Ellis Cose contributes expert analysis to the issues behind the statistics in Black in America: The Black Man. Credit: Lorenzo Bevilaqua/CNN	Former Cosby Show actor Joseph C. Phillips is the author of He Talk Like a White Boy and appears in Black in America: The Black Man. Credit: Justin LaRose/CNN	The FBI draft of an unsigned letter it sent to King following the announcement of his Nobel Prize for Peace. According to Pulitzer Prize-winning political scientist David Garrow, members of the FBI intended to intimidate King into ending his efforts – and perhaps his life – with this letter and an accompanying illicit FBI surveillance audiotape. Credit: Justin LaRose/CNN

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CNN & Essence Co-Production at the Essence Music Festival

(L to R) Jabali Sawicki, Professor Roland Fryer, Dr. Cornel West, CNN anchor & special correspondent Soledad O'Brien, Cheryle Jackson, Bishop TD Jakes, Tom Joyner, Economist & Bennett College President Julianne Malveaux, Actor and author Hill Harper, Black Enterprise's Ed Gordon and Actor and activist Sheryl Lee Ralph all participated as panelists for CNN and Essence’s Co-Production of Reclaiming the Dream. Premieres Saturday, July 19 at 8pm. Credit: Justin LaRose/CNN
Soledad O’Brien Meet and Greet at the Turner Store

CNN anchor and special correspondent Soledad O’Brien meets CNN viewers and talks about Black in America at the Turner Store in the CNN Center in Atlanta. Credit: Jeremy Freeman/CNN	CNN viewers line up outside the Turner Store to meet CNN anchor and special correspondent Soledad O'Brien. Credit: Jeremy Freeman/CNN	CNN anchor and special correspondent Soledad O’Brien signs a Black in America poster at the Turner Store in Atlanta. Credit: Jeremy Freeman/CNN

Steve Harvey Foundation Golf Tournament

Steve Harvey,
Comedian and Radio Host and Soledad O'Brien, CNN anchor and special correspondent.

Credit: Jeremy Freeman

Tom Joyner Foundation Fantastic Voyage

Panelists (L to R): Patti LaBelle, Julius Erving, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Soledad O'Brien, Bill Duke, Lynn Norment, Barry Mayo, and Sheryl Underwood for Black in America Screening.

Credit: Monica Morgan

HBCU Tour

CNN’s Chris Lawrence does live shots on April 8 at Florida A & M University, the first stop on CNN’s Black in America tour of Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Credit: E. M. Pio Roda/CNN	Jermaine Fletcher, the FAMU winner of CNN’s Campus iReporter contest talks with CNN correspondent Chris Lawrence about his iReport submission. Credit: E. M. Pio Roda/CNN	Graduating senior Thomas Warren, the Campus iReporter contest winner for the Howard University stop of CNN's Black in America tour on April 18. Credit: Jeremy Freeman/CNN


CNN anchor T.J. Holmes interviews Morehouse College senior Travers Johnson onApril 22 at the Atlanta University Center. Johnson was one of the winners ofthe Campus iReporter contest for the Black in America HBCU tour. Credit: Jeremy Freeman/CNN	CNN anchor T.J. Holmes stands with winners of the Campus iReporter contest at the Atlanta University Center — Nashawn Anderson, a Spelman College sophomore, and Stephano Kaiser, a Clark Atlanta junior. Credit: Jeremy Freeman/CNN

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