Bill Moyers Journal (2007-2010); Preview: "Traces of the Trade;" Douglas Blackmon; Glenn Loury and Orlando Patterson; Moyers on Juneteenth

June 20, 2008

BILL MOYERS JOURNAL examines racial inequality in America through the prisms of the legacy of slavery and the current socio-economic landscape and previews the documentary TRACES OF THE TRADE. Bill Moyers interviews Douglas Blackmon, the Atlanta bureau chief of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, about his latest book, SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME, which looks at an "age of neo slavery" that thrived from the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II. And Moyers gets perspective from historical and cultural sociologist Orlando Patterson and Glenn C. Loury, an economist and expert on race and social division. BILL MOYERS JOURNAL -- Award-winning public affairs journalist Bill Moyers hosts this weekly series filled with fresh and original voices. Each hour-long broadcast features analysis of current issues and interviews with prominent figures from the worlds of arts and entertainment, religion, science, politics and the media.