Movie

Black Table

20241h 33m

Documentary

In 1993, elite U.S. universities saw a surge in admissions of students of color, including the largest class of black students at Yale. This coincided with a pivotal moment in America's culture wars, marked by a waning civil rights movement and higher education grappling with chilling legislation. The largest class of black students in Yale University's history arrived in 1993, just as the country entered a period now known as the Great American Divide: the unofficial beginning of today's culture wars. Together, these students created for each other an education that challenged the official curriculum, whose central texts were the stories they share with -- and the experiences they bring to -- a university dining hall table as old as the 20th Century itself.

Directed by:

Billy Mack, John Antonio James, Bill Mack