Amend: The Fight for America

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History Hit

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4.7 • 12.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Take a deep dive into the remaking of the American Constitution and the 14th amendment created in the wake of the American Civil War. The 14th amendment formed a key part of addressing citizenship rights and equal protection under the law, particularly for former slaves. Comedian, writer and actor Larry Wilmore is executive producer and one of the stars of the six-part series Amend: The Fight For America which examines why the 14th amendment mattered at the time and continues to be of vital importance to American society today.

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0:00.0	Hi everybody, welcome downstairs history.
0:02.3	What I treat this podcast was I got to meet one of my heroes.
0:05.1	I got to meet Larry Wilmore, his American comedian writer,
0:08.5	producer, actor, the whole works.
0:10.4	I first saw him on the Daily Show, which I was addicted to.
0:13.6	He was the senior black correspondent on there.
0:16.1	He also created the Bernie Mac show,
0:18.5	and he had the Comedy Central show as well,
0:20.1	one of the many spin-offs from the Daily Show.
0:22.4	The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore, which is very funny.
0:25.1	He's on the podcast because he's talking about a man,
0:26.9	the fight for America.
0:28.2	A deep dive on the 14th Amendment folks,
0:30.2	the kind of thing that comedy actors and writers
0:32.0	are always talking about.
0:33.4	This was the show made by him,
0:36.0	Simon Little Jackson, Will Smith,
0:38.4	there is other people about the 14th Amendment.
0:41.1	Why it mattered at the time, why it's still matters.
0:42.9	Gotta check it out.
0:43.8	How the Constitution was remade in the years
0:46.0	following the American Civil War.
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