Huffpost Black Voices
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When we first starting working on The HuffPost Show towards the end of 2014, we turned for inspiration to a 53-year-old TV program called That Was The Week That Was — a groundbreaking series that blended music, comedy, conversation, and frequently pointed satire.
During our research, we came across video of a stunning segment the show had done in April 1963, in the wake of the murder of a civil rights protestor marching from Alabama to Jackson, Mississippi, who was gunned down on the side of the road. It was a brutally satiric musical number, featuring intentionally offensive language and imagery you’d be hard-pressed to find on TV today — let alone 50-plus years ago.
We talked about how we might be able to do something similar, using music mixed with ridicule to call out the racial violence that continues to…
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