Ebony Towers: The New Black Intelligentsia

Part 1
This is the first part of "Ebony Towers: The New Black Intelligentsia" by David Olusoga comparing the state of Black Academia in the US and with us here in the UK.



Part 2
Second part of a documentary called "Ebony Towers: The New Black Intelligentsia" by David Olusoga comparing the state of Black Academia in the US and with us here in the UK. This part remembers the struggles that our people went through just to be able to go to University in the US. It also starts telling the story of our elders who came to the UK especially from the Caribbean in the 50s and 60s and their children's experience in the education system.



Part 3
Third part of a documentary called "Ebony Towers: The New Black Intelligentsia" by David Olusoga comparing the state of Black Academia in the US and with us here in the UK. This section looks at how Black children in Britain in the sixties and seventies were pushed into certain kinds of blue-collar jobs. It also looks at the rise of African American in the radical late sixties America.



Part 4
Fourth part of a documentary called "Ebony Towers: The New Black Intelligentsia" by David Olusoga comparing the state of Black Academia in the US and with us here in the UK. This section looks at some of the influence of those who came into Higher Education in the US in the post-Civil Rights era. In the UK, we are way,
way behind. We actually experience a brain drain, with so many of our academics and intellectuals heading abroad.



Part 5
Fifth part of a documentary called "Ebony Towers: The New Black Intelligentsia" by David Olusoga comparing the state of Black Academia in the US and with us here in the UK. This section discusses the influence of music and urban culture on perceptions of education among our young people on both sides of the pond.



Part 6
Sixth and last part of a documentary called "Ebony Towers: The New Black Intelligentsia" by David Olusoga comparing the state of Black Academia in the US and with us here in the UK. This last part continues on the anti-intellectual mentality that plagues our young people and also makes the call for academics and intelllectuals to do their bit to address the socio-economic depravation within many of our communities.