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America Divided": New TV Series Explores Inequality from Water to Housing to Mass Incarceration - With the presidential election less than five weeks away, the explosive new documentary "America Divided" explores inequality in America. The show follows high-profile correspondents as they explore aspects of inequality in education, housing, healthcare, labor, criminal justice and the political system. Oscar-winning hip-hop artist Common returns to his hometown of Chicago to examine disparities in the criminal justice system. Actress Rosario Dawson

Famous faces head to the front lines of inequality in ' America Divided'  - A group of actors step out of Hollywood and into the heart of real issues in a new Epix docuseries about inequality , " America  ...

America : Divided In the Pursuit Of Happiness  - There is another inequality , too, that reflects and reinforces the others: in ... Well-being scores highlight the different outlooks of the two Americas .

Divided: A road Trip Through Trump's America - In Keyser, West Virginia., long a desperately poor community in one of America's poorest states, residents are confronting another daunting problem ...

TV miniseries on inequality zooms in on Flint - The beleaguered city and its ongoing water crisis are being featured in the new documentary series America Divided, which takes an in-depth look at ...

The Divided City' warns of Detroit's inequality - message historian and author Alan Mallach conveys in his new book, “The Divided City: Poverty and Prosperity in Urban America ,” which ...

Norman Lear on Racial Inequality: 'It Amazes Me That We Haven't Moved Faster'  - The current “America Divided” correspondent contrasted the pace of that ongoing issue to the one of LGBTQ progress, which he said, “just moved so ...

This Gorgeous Short Film Takes Us to the Heart of the Dakota Access Pipeline Standoff - his recent mini-doc series on inequality in the United States: America Divided, which aired on EPIX in October and November, took us to corners of a ...

America Isn't As Polarized As You Think It Is - On the other hand, the economic polarization of America has not divided the ... 82 percent of Americans think economic inequality is a “very big” (48 ...

Yet, even beyond the question of slavery, inequality was built into the ... In The Divided States of America, Donald Kettl chronicles the history of a ... View article...

America still divided by racism into two separate, unequal societies - The Kerner Commission described a country in which African- Americans faced systematic discrimination , suffered from inadequate education and housing, and lacked access to economic opportunities. For them, there was no American dream. The root cause was “the racial attitude and behavior of ...

50 years after MLK's death, racism lingers in divided America -  Few Americans would disagree with Kone. Although racism and race-based discrimination are considered evil by the majority of Americans , racism is still a serious problem in the United States today. Often it can be more subtle or even built into the system, as seen by racial profiling by law enforcement ...

America's Most Divided Jobs by Gender and Race - Though we'd all like to write off things, such as segregation and discrimination , as part of the past, we're all still grappling with them. When it comes to ...

America was divided alright -- but not by the Russians - In the Democratic primary, Clinton tore into rival Bernie Sanders, telling CNN in January 2016 that the Vermont senator was offering unrealistic "big ideas" that were light on specifics, overplaying his anti-establishment credentials, focusing too much on income inequality , and being soft on gun control.

The US is divided on immigration - Immigrants deserve equal opportunity in America , especially if they are escaping poverty or injustice. Being born with different circumstances ...

Barely six months into his new job, CNN chief executive Chris Licht strode into a sunlit conference room to make his pitch to rescue America's  ... View article...

NFL kneeling isn't the problem; a divided country is -  Americans ' focus is back on kneeling during the national anthem because of ... Colin Kaepernick said this is due to the racial  inequality  in  America .

How Cities Are Divided By Income, Mapped - The rest continue to suffer concentrated poverty and decline. This is not just a Philadelphia story. To visualize the landscape of economic inequality in U.S. cities, the mapping whizzes at ESRI have created a captivating story map with multiple layers. It presents America's stark income disparities—and in ...

5 ways Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. changed America - Late in life, King focused on economic inequality for all Americans , and that's a problem that's clearly gotten worse since his death. We're still easily divided against each other in fear, and inexcusable violence is excused by those in power on a regular basis. Still, there's reason to hope: Progress ...

"The Republican party basically sees the true national identity of America as .... Drutman points out that, in the US, "political polarisation and inequality ... View article...