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![What Was Life Like For Black Americans In The 90s?
What was it like being black in the 1990s? Black life in the 1990s was at times beautiful, at times scary, and always complicated. The continued rise of black celebrities and culture did not translate into a rise in the black condition. What changed? What stayed the same? In this episode of Lexual Does The 90s, we’ll dive into Black Life in Clintons America.
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Intro
0:00- Toni Morrison Defends Bill Clinton
1:40- Complex Nostalgia
Black Celebrities and Culture
3:39- Black Radio and Music
7:59- Whitney Houston
9:14- Black Literature + Terry McMillan
13:10- Black Movies and Stars
23:15— Black TV
24:19- Whoopi Goldberg’s Decade
A Tale of Three Cities
26:18- The State of Washington DC
26:57- Marion Barry, Sharon Pratt Kelly, DC Statehood
31:53— Douglass Wilder + Virginia
32:21— David Dinkins’ New York
33:52— Family Red Apple Boycott
38:04— The Crown Heights Riots
41:42— Police Riot + Rudolph Giuliani
44:28- Giuliani Gets “Tough”
48:05- Abner Louima and Amadou Diallo
50:27— Los Angeles’s Population
52:10— Rodney King
54:14— Latasha Harlins + Korean Americans
59:09— Rodney King Verdict
1:01:22— The 1992 LA Riots
1:10:37— Black Views of The Riots
1:13:03— The Sister Souljah Moment
1:16:46— The Watts Truce
Divisions
1:20:09— The Black Middle Class
1:22:59- New Black Intellectuals
1:25:20— Clarence Thomas v Anita Hill
1:33:12— Benjamin Chavis, Mike Tyson, MJ, R Kelly
1:38:04—The People vs OJ Simpson
1:48:25— Reactions to OJ Verdict
1:50:46— Afrocentricity + Black Nationalism
1:53:22— Reparations, Farrakhan. Conservatism
1:55:21- Million Man March
1:57:32— HIV/AIDS + Conspiracies
1:59:14— Farrakhan’s Brand of Conservatism
2:00:32— The Complexities of Hip Hop
Salt In The Wounds
2:03:23— Charles Murray’s Bell Curve Bullshit
2:04:59— The “Poverty Draft”
2:06:20— Capturing and Litigating Racism
2:12:24— 1990s Crime and The Crime Bill
2:17:52— Driving While Black + Sundown Towns
2:20:02— Church Arsons
2:22:14— The Lynching of James Byrd Jr.
2:24:24— Conclusion What Was Life Like For Black Americans In The 90s?](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/n1wbJRUM45A/mqdefault.jpg)



![A Black Peoples History of Dogs
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Have you ever wondered about the relationship between black people and dogs? This is dedicated to all the fur babies. [Dogs, animal history, pet history, pit bulls, Cuban bloodhounds, dogo cubano, slavery, coconut oil dog, dog recipes, pet recipes, Reign, Michael Vick, why do white people love their dogs so much, can dogs be racist, Tucker Carlson, police brutality, violence, German shepherds, spoiled pitbull, Walter Gasden, K-9 Units, history of dog police]
0:00- Intro, Spoiled Pit Bull
3:25- The Legacy of Racist Dogs and Enslavement
9:11- Black Pet Ownership and Veterinarians
11:29- Black People and Cats
12:50- Dog Ownership and Policing in 20th Century
15:38- Hurricane Katrina
16:25- Michael Vick and White Priorities
17:40- Pet Access, Pit Bulls
20:33- Modern K-9 Units
21:34- Conclusion and Benefits of Pets
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![The True History of True Crime
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How has the True Crime genre evolved? How old is True Crime? Is True Crime historical or exploitative? [True crime, true crime podcasts, Truthful New Reports, crime history, printing press, Harold Schecter, Judith Flanders, Murder, Victorian London, Jack The Ripper, serial killers, white privelege, Ida B Wells, Peoples Grocery, Memphis History, lynching in America, Mindhunter, True Crime History, Serial Killer History, Hybristophilia, Ted Bundy, Richard Ramirez, Murderabilia, HH Holmes, crime blotter, Jack The Ripper Museum, Londons East End, Lizzie Borden, Mary Cecilia Rogers, Makeup and a Mystery, Bailey Sarian, Truman Capote, Copaganda, Dragnet, Chicago, Chicago the Musical, Roxie Hart, Belva Gaertner, Beulah Annan, Robert Nixon, Native Son, Richard Wright, Emmett Till, Mamie Till Mobley, Recy Taylor, Rosa Parks, Elizabeth Short, The Black Dahlia, Zodiac, Zodiac killer, unsolved mysteries, uncolved crimes, Americas Most Wanted, Oj Simpson, Nicole Brown Simpson, Ronald Goldman, Jack Webb, FBI, detective magazines, J Edgar Hoover, The Clutter Family, Kansas, Roger Ebert, Boston Strangler, homicides, Charles Manson, Vincent Bugliosi, Helter Skelter, Manson Cult, Roman Polanski, Sharon Tate, New Left, 1960s history, Norman Mailer, The Executioners Song, Boston Roxbury Murders, Atlanta Child Murders, Ann Rule, The Stranger Beside Me, True Crime Books I Should Read, James Baldwin, Thin Blue Line, Errol Morris, John E Douglas, Charles Stuart, Investigation Discovery, Oxygen, Rebka Howard, Latoyia Figueroa, Tamika Huston, reinvestigation podcasts, The Evidence of things Not Seen, Wayne Williams, The First 48, Aiyanna Jones, Joseph Weekley, Making a Murderer, Netflix, Best Netflix true Crime, Making a Murderer reaction, Jeffrey Dahmer, Gwen Ifill, Tamla Horsford, Kendrick Johnson, John J Lennon, Terrance Williams, Felipe Santos]
0:00-Intro
4:49- Pre-Modern True Crime
20:58- Early 20th Century True Crime
37:02- Truman Capote Changes the Genre
48:24- Ann Rule Evolves True Crime
55:45- Making a Killing off True Crime
1:01:25- True Crime in the 2000s
1:16:04- Conclusion
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