Moyers & Company - Season 1 Episode 11 An Optimist for Our Times
Angela Glover Blackwell has spent her adult life advocating practical ways to fulfill America’s promise of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” for all. Now, with our middle class struggling, poverty rising, and inequality growing, the founder and chief executive officer of PolicyLink, an influential research center, finds reasons for hope in the face of these hard realities. On this week’s Moyers & Company, Bill Moyers and Blackwell discuss what fuels her optimism. “I’m not discouraged, and I wouldn’t even dream of giving up, because we’re at a moment right now where I think we have more possibility than I’ve seen in my adult lifetime,” Blackwell tells Moyers. “Part of what I’ve been feeling is that all the issues are finally on the table… So many people who are being left behind are now in places where they have voice, and influence, and they’re forcing their way into the conversation.
First Air Date: Jan 15, 2012
Last Air date: Jan 03, 2014
Season: 2 Season
Episode: 102 Episode
Runtime: 26 minutes
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