What was it like being black in the 1990s? Black life in the 1990s was at times beautiful, at times scary, and always complicated. The continued rise of black celebrities and culture did not translate into a rise in the black condition. What changed? What stayed the same? In this episode of Lexual Does The 90s, we’ll dive into Black Life in Clinton's America.

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[Black History Timeline, Black History Stories, black history introduction, stories about black history, Bill Clinton, Toni Morrison, Chris Tucker, Stone Mountain Georgia, Byron De La Beckwith, Medgar Evers, 13th Amendment, John Singleton, House Party, Black Filmmakers, Black 1990s Movies, Terry McMillan, Ice Cube, Dr Dre, Snoop Dogg, Tupac, Biggie, Nas, Coolio, The Geto Boys, 2 Live Crew, Three6Mafia, Neosoul, Erykah Badu, Maxwell, Lauryn Hill, Grammys, Boyz II Men, Waiting To Exhale, The Preachers Wife, Terry McMillan, Whitney Houston, Moesha, Brandy Norwood, The Vocal Bible, Octavia Butler, Beyonce, Destiny’s Child, 90s Music, Hootie and The Blowfish, Iyanla Vanzant, Middle Class, The Black Middle Class,They’ve Gotta Have Us, Spike Lee, Malcolm X, Denzel Washington, Daughters of The Dust, Julie Dash, Kasi Lemmons, Eve’s Bayou, Will Smith, Jada Pinkett, Ted Danson, Whoopi Goldberg, Marion Barry arrest, Crack Scandal, Why isn’t DC a state, Sharon Pratt Kelly, David Dinkins, Family Red Apple Boycott, Crown Heights Riots, Gavin Cato, immigrants, Al Sharpton, Jews vs Blacks, Pogrom, Anti-Semitism, Rodney King, George Holliday, Soon Ja Du, Latasha Harlins, Judge Joyce Carlin, Tom Bradley, Los Angeles History, 1992 LA Riots, 1992 LA Uprising, Empire Liquor, Death Certificate, Reginald Denny, cleaning up the LA riots, When was the insurrection act used, which presidents used the insurrection act, George Bush, Black-Asian Relations, Louis Farrakhan, Black-jewish relations, black nationalism, black extremism, OJ Simpson, OJ Simpson glove video, Johnny Cochrane if it doesn't fit video, Kim Kardashian, Keeping Up with The Kardashians, Is OJ Khloe's Real Dad, conspiracy theories, A Different World, Latino-Black Relations, Ellis Cose, Rage of a Priveleged Class, Cornel West, Henry Louis Gates Jr, Clarence Thomas, Why is Clarence Thomas bad, what does the supreme court do, supreme court history, bell hooks, Benjamin Chavis, Environmental Racism, NAACP, Belly, Mike Tyson, Juice, Desiree Washington, Mike Tyson rape trial, did Mike Tyson rape, Did OJ really do it, William Kennedy Smith, Kennedy Political Dynasty, Michael Jackson, Nicole Brown Simpson, Ronald Goldman, OJ Simpson Not Guilty Video, Robert Shapiro, Mark Fuhrman, Mark Fuhrman tapes, Marcia Clark, Christopher Darden, black women supporting OJ Simpson, racism at Cracker Barrel, Afrocentricity, Kwanzaa, black history month, black homophobia, HIV/AIDS, Rosa Parks, Crime in 1990s, Magic Johnson, Eazy E, Dr Sebi, Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys, Jawanza Kunjufu, poverty draft, racial lawsuits, Kurt Shmoke, 90s church arsons]

Intro
0:00- Toni Morrison Defends Bill Clinton
1:40- Complex Nostalgia

Black Celebrities and Culture
3:39- Black Radio and Music
7:59- Whitney Houston
9:14- Black Literature + Terry McMillan
13:10- Black Movies and Stars
23:15— Black TV
24:19- Whoopi Goldberg’s Decade

A Tale of Three Cities
26:18- The State of Washington DC
26:57- Marion Barry, Sharon Pratt Kelly, DC Statehood
31:53— Douglass Wilder + Virginia
32:21— David Dinkins’ New York
33:52— Family Red Apple Boycott
38:04— The Crown Heights Riots
41:42— Police Riot + Rudolph Giuliani
44:28- Giuliani Gets “Tough”
48:05- Abner Louima and Amadou Diallo
50:27— Los Angeles’s Population
52:10— Rodney King
54:14— Latasha Harlins + Korean Americans
59:09— Rodney King Verdict
1:01:22— The 1992 LA Riots
1:10:37— Black Views of The Riots
1:13:03— The Sister Souljah Moment
1:16:46— The Watts Truce

Divisions

1:20:09— The Black Middle Class
1:22:59- New Black Intellectuals
1:25:20— Clarence Thomas v Anita Hill
1:33:12— Benjamin Chavis, Mike Tyson, MJ, R Kelly
1:38:04—The People vs OJ Simpson
1:48:25— Reactions to OJ Verdict
1:50:46— Afrocentricity + Black Nationalism
1:53:22— Reparations, Farrakhan. Conservatism
1:55:21- Million Man March
1:57:32— HIV/AIDS + Conspiracies
1:59:14— Farrakhan’s Brand of Conservatism
2:00:32— The Complexities of Hip Hop

Salt In The Wounds
2:03:23— Charles Murray’s Bell Curve Bullshit
2:04:59— The “Poverty Draft”
2:06:20— Capturing and Litigating Racism
2:12:24— 1990s Crime and The Crime Bill
2:17:52— Driving While Black + Sundown Towns
2:20:02— Church Arsons
2:22:14— The Lynching of James Byrd Jr.
2:24:24— Conclusion

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