17:25...Old man spittin' game. If he could only see what going on now...he'll be like, "I told you so."...it's a cold world....no mercy.

To actually see Mitch Snyder and Kimi Gray is so refreshing. DC Proud.

I lived on 14 and Belmont during all this. DC had a strong rich culture full of academic and revolutionary people. 14 street was full of black business , my elementary school was Marie h. Reid cultural learning center on 18 street. This is crazy we fell so far.

Life is like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder 🎶 📻

I love DC. The Black people there are so dope. They show mad love, or that was my experience.

83 is still early. This was before crack got dropped off in the district

Something depressing is that the crack epidemic was about 3 years away.

I love this Frontline it makes me feel like I’m informed about what’s going on during the past ... I wonder if you can upload more of these PBS Frontline documentaries in the 1980s in your channel?

_Frontline_ is excellent! Worldwide, the mission of the ‘50s through the ‘70s was to bring power to the grassroots, including through unflinching reporting … and although much of the world backtracked beginning in the ‘80s, seduced by Reagan and Thatcher into a grotesque, acquisitive, unthinking and unfeeling “me first” mentality, _Frontline_ continues to assume viewers are intelligent and humane, and to treat journalism as society’s great equalizer. Bravo _Frontline!_

R I p Jessica satvich

Thank you for this upload

Wow DC 1970s/1980s/1990s in film has come a long way!

This is the DC I grew up in.

It’s rare to see Jessica Savitch as the host of PBS Frontline since she was usually the weekend news anchor of NBC Nightly News before she was killed in a car accident in 1983.

Awesome love the old frontline

This is simply excellent

This is my city I remember love this segment so much.

Some truth was dropped during the debate at the end of this documentary. Sad that just a few years later, that very same mayor ended up getting exposed as a crackhead. On a sidenote, Vinmoonsu, you've got to check out "Wannabe: Life and Death in a Small Town Gang" someone uploaded here on YT. Comedic gold from our friends at PBS🤣

Government guaranteed jobs program would change Labor condition greatly right now.

‘83 is when my family moved to DC - LeDroit Park to be exact. I was 2 years old. To see LDP in here is crazy. Shit got worse over there after this. Way worse.

@17:14 & @17:41 I felt that 😢😩🙏🏽💯🏁😭

I remember the day when the KKK marched down Constitution Ave. I was 17 years old and the feeling of anger was so intense, it was like fire next to a can of gasoline. There were police in riot gear behind the barricades and the protesters became upset with them even though they were just doing their jobs. It started with yelling, some disrespected by spitting, then, object throwing ensured, followed by many attempts to break down the barricades and got to the KKK, including myself. I was born at Friedman's Hospital in 64 and love DC with all my heart. This documentary really provides more context as to how the Federal government broke apart the power of community organizers by allowing them local positions within the government, but with limited power and resources.

Disgusting that my community is still dealing with the same problems and having the same exact discussions 40 years later!!!!!! 😡

Great Era of ernest journalism

I never seen them shop at the grocery stores that are in the neighborhood

I was born and raised in DC, went to DC public schools. I still consider DC my home. It’s been 40 years since this documentary was aired. I remember all of the city officials featured in this story. Many of the neighborhoods that I’m used to in DC are unrecognizable these days. The people now living on the block I grew up on are predominantly White. The same is true all over the city. Gentrification has dramatically changed the DC landscape. What the poor people were saying 40 years ago has come to fruition. Some neighborhoods have gone from predominantly Black to predominantly White in less than a decade. Public housing has been torn down and replaced with townhouses and superstores. I can only imagine what my birthplace will look like over the next decade.

It's striking to observe the cyclical nature of history, as we find ourselves still grappling with the same query: "Where are the influential men who are actively pushing, pressing, and organizing for change?"

Marion Barry the BEST mayor DC has EVER had...to THIS day

Say SNIC one more fucking time!!

man awesome documentaries...that was rel hard times for young people i think cause of so many drug dealers and poor people that s way criminal is only option but problem is that was to many crocodiles in same water

22:29 why did it cut off when he said “we have a lot of colored clones 😕

In my 50th Year.. Happy to have made it this Far.. Sure Glad my Family Came to UK and Not USA.. Has A Son of Africa.. In Swahili.. Ubarikiwe Afrika..

Scripture says (paraphrasing), the poor you have with you always. All government gains in this effort is more power. And people's suffering only increases. Every man must make a difference for themselves.

29:03 He lost letters from Langston Hughes 😢💔

The preview after the show is kinda ironic for me cause I've been reading and digesting a lot of info about China these days. I was even doing a little Mandarin lesson while watching it earlier

black politicians man make for the best docos, i love these characters

Can you sort your uploads into playlists

You better check yo self before you reck yo self

Wayne perry was absolutely turning this city upside down at this point in time when this came out

LMAO AT THE 52:00 MARK....

Buddha Heads!

They knew the Black man was on his way ,so this the Era them cowards put that dam Crack in the hood.

39 years later...no government can't. "Democrats care" hilarious.

DC is now mostly “gentrified “.

This channel ba

Mr Marion Barry The Great 🖖🏽

Those 🖤 people always blame everyone else