Episode 98: "We Work Again"

In these times of talk of economic recession, we take a look back to 1937 and the end of the Great Depression with the government documentary "We Work Again". This film is interesting in showing the government's initiative in putting African-Americans back to work. But it also shows the images and expectations of a segregated society (check out the swimming pools and playgrounds), even without mentioning the race of the subjects within the film.

An additional piece of information...the footage of the play that makes up the end of the film is "Voodoo Macbeth". This is the version of the Shakespeare play that a young Orson Welles (then known mainly through radio) set in Haiti in the (then) relatively near past, with an all African-American cast. Peace.