Sorin's father was an avid photographer and took this photo of his children in front of their car. At the same time, the film is a celebration of how African Americans embraced their freedom to travel. It threads together personal stories of harassment from famous Americans such as Frederick Douglass and Thurgood Marshall with video clips of people today getting stopped, pulled over and worse. The film is about enduring racism while on the road. “I think we’re in a time right now where African Americans are feeling a similar kind of fear as their grandparents felt in the 1930s and 40s.” “There are still so many dangers of being on the road,” says Allyson Hobbs, a Stanford University associate professor, in the film. When Black Americans first found their freedom to move around, White Americans pushed back fearing where they were going and why – and the remnants of that prejudice linger today. Through archival footage and a series of interviews, the filmmakers’ argument is poignant. The two-hour film, premiering October 13 on PBS, winds its way from slavery to Jim Crow to the advent of the interstate highway. Black people continually face danger behind the wheel, and it’s rooted in history. Rayshard Brooks, who had fallen asleep at the wheel of his car and failed a field sobriety test, is fatally shot.Ī new documentary, “Driving While Black,” digs deep to untangle a twisted reality. Philando Castile is pulled over by police and within minutes he is dead. Sandra Bland dies in a jail cell days after a traffic stop.
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