Love In Black and White

Genre: 4-Part Documentary Series

Logline: Four part documentary series about interracial life in America from 1940 to present day and how media (television, film and music) has both helped to divide and bring together it's people .

Summary:

Episode 1:

1940’s and 1950’s - Radio, Movies, Tijuana Bibles and introduction of television

Episode 2

1960’s - 1970’s - Television becomes more prominent but stays for the most part chaste. Music becomes more rock and roll, drugs and free love reflected in books and film.

Underground “race and sex comedy records” come into the mainstream via Red Foxx and Richard Pryor.

Episode 3

1980’s - 1990’s - Prince and the Two Live Crew give birth to the PMRC and that fuels the fire for kids of all colors to buy albums with parental stickers attached. The nastier the lyric the more records it sells and the bigger and more desirable the performer becomes regardless of race to the consumer.

Episode 4

2000 - Present Day

Couples talk about their experiences pros and con. The episode will highlight people who do not agree with where we are and think cable tv and music will lead to nothing good as far as relations go. How Black Lives Matter and the 24 hour able news monster aides in the destruction of myth or the exacerbation fear will be examined. Tying up and closing with a recap on where we have come where we are and where we have yet to go.