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Throwaway People

Feb. 13, 1990
60 minutes

Correspondent Roger Wilkins investigates the economic and social roots of the black underclass, focusing on the struggle of young black men in one neighborhood in Washington, DC.

Producer(s): Sherry Jones

Awards: The Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award 1st Prize Television