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America After Charleston

Season 1 Episode 1 | 56m 40s

A PBS town hall meeting, moderated by PBS NEWSHOUR co-anchor and managing editor, Gwen Ifill, explores the many issues propelled into public discourse after a white gunman shot and killed nine African-American parishioners in Charleston's Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.

Aired: 09/20/15
Extras
Jelani Cobb, contributor for The New Yorker, challenges the power of conversation.
Explore the persisting inequalities that face young African-Americans today.
Panelists discuss the Black Lives Matter movement.
Hear from Polly Sheppard, a survivor of the shootings in Charleston.
Join moderator Gwen Ifill for a special town hall on Monday, September 21 at 9/8C.
Audience members discuss how media portrayal of African-Americans affects their lives.
Exclusive data from Facebook shows conversations about guns spiked in June 2015.
Exclusive data from Facebook shows spikes in conversations about race.
Hear from those closely tied to the Emanuel AME Church and the June 2015 shootings.
Join the town hall Monday Sept. 21st, at 9 pm ET on PBS.