Street Fight

PBS Premiere: July 5, 2005Check the broadcast schedule »

Watching Street Fight

Introduction

Ellis Cose
Ellis Cose, Writer
"And as Curry makes clear, the 2002 Newark mayoral race was nothing if not a descent into racial madness. For long stretches, it was not so much a substantive political campaign as a battle over blackness and who best embodied it. This is not to say it wasn't good politics." | Read more »

Debra Dickerson
Debra Dickerson, Writer

"I have always suspected that blacks would be as fascist, greedy, violent, criminal, and racist as whites if given the opportunity to be so and Sharpe James proves me right, sadly. We fought, march and died for our civil rights and all we want to do with them is become everything we fought, marched and died opposing." | Read more »

Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou
Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou, Minister
"In most instances, by the time an African-American was elected mayor of a chocolate city there was a rapid decline in the both the fiscal and physical infrastructure. Yet, Black mayors have local mystics that emphasize the past in light of a tepid present and uncertain future. " | Read more »