Deep Cover (feat. Adam Serwer)
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audio
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1990s
Movies
Nostalgia
TV & Film
USA
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TV & Film
Publication Date |
Sep 02, 2022
Episode Duration |
01:09:47

Jamelle, John and special guest Adam Serwer of The Atlantic watch one of the great crime movies of the 1990s — Bill Duke’s “Deep Cover” — and talk about post-Cold War anxiety over the drug trade, Black “tough on crime” politics, and the war on drugs.

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New York Times front-page for April 15, 1992

James Forman’s book on the Black politics of the early 1990s, “Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America.”

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Jamelle, John and special guest Adam Serwer of The Atlantic watch one of the great crime movies of the 1990s — Bill Duke's "Deep Cover" — and talk about post-Cold War anxiety over the drug trade, Black "tough on crime" politics, and the war on drugs.

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