Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., discusses the Simpson verdict and the Million Man March with Wynton Marsalis, Spike Lee, Jamaica Kincaid, and others.
On the OJ verdict: "As blacks exulted at Simpson's acquittal, horrified whites had a fleeting sense that this race thing was knottier than they'd ever supposed—that, when all the pieties were cleared away, blacks really were strangers in their midst."