What's Left Of The American Dream? Ep.1/4 : Black America | ALL IDENTITIES COMBINED
Michael Jackson, Michael Jordan, Michael Johnson. Then Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, hip-hop, and Boyz n the Hood.
As a teenager in the 1990s, the America that spoke most deeply to Walid was embodied by its Black icons. Voices, bodies, a way of carrying oneself, an energy, but above all a way of inhabiting the world: turning style into language, anger into power, memory into counter-narrative, and struggle into a global imaginary.
In Atlanta, with curator and historian T.K. Smith and artist Fahamu Pècou, one question comes into focus: what does it mean to carry a culture celebrated everywhere, when real equality remains contested at home?
From the Great Migration to Atlanta’s rise as a Black Mecca, from Obama to Trump’s return, Black America explores the paradox of a Black culture at the heart of the American Dream’s imagination — yet still kept at a distance from its promise.
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What’s Left of the American Dream? / Que reste-t-il du rêve américain ? is a bilingual documentary series by Walid Hajar Rachedi. Set in Atlanta — the city of Martin Luther King Jr., a “Black Mecca” and a new crossroads of migration — during the first 100 days of Donald Trump’s second term in 2025, it explores the stories of those who still live the American Dream, those who question it, and those who never believed in it.
Editorial and sound support for this episode : Ryad Maouche.
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