![]() ![]() You can imagine that he shot all his voiceovers in two afternoons of work. The show includes far too many elegiac shots of Gates walking among the palmettos with his stylish cane. At times, the show feels like a bit of a side hustle. Gates, last prominently seen sharing a beer at the Obama White House with the Massachusetts cop who arrested him while he was trying to break into his own house, prepared this series as a sort-of companion piece to his book Stony The Road, released this month. Part straight history, part polemic, it reframes the history of black life in America, and American life in general, through an angry but also hopeful lens. ![]() ‘Reconstruction,’ a new four-hour documentary series from Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the year’s most intellectually nutritious offering. Even in this age of super-diffuse media content, watching PBS still feels like eating your fiber and vegetables. ![]()
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