
FIRSTHAND: Segregation | A Black Business in Lincoln Park
Clip: Season 8 Episode 3 | 1m 31sVideo has Closed Captions
Rashad Bailey is a Black business owner in a majority white Chicago neighborhood.
Rashad Bailey, the owner of Dinner and a Movie, is feeling the heat, not from the kitchen, but the neighborhood of Lincoln Park. Although the owner dealt with complaints - noise and fighting - from around the majority white community about his Black business, Bailey has had to respond to the police and the city, and been restricted in how to run his restaurant his own way.
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FIRSTHAND: Segregation | A Black Business in Lincoln Park
Clip: Season 8 Episode 3 | 1m 31sVideo has Closed Captions
Rashad Bailey, the owner of Dinner and a Movie, is feeling the heat, not from the kitchen, but the neighborhood of Lincoln Park. Although the owner dealt with complaints - noise and fighting - from around the majority white community about his Black business, Bailey has had to respond to the police and the city, and been restricted in how to run his restaurant his own way.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(upbeat music) We play Black people music, and we have Black customers, and that's the problem.
So any time they see a Black person walking to their car, they're gonna say, "That's gotta be a customer from Dinner and a Movie."
(indistinct conversation) (tense music) Things will happen, that's why you have police.
So, putting this all on the business owner... We had the town hall already coming.
Before the shooting, that was already gonna happen.
Then we had our situation with the police where they wanted to talk about what we were gonna do differently to open back up.
And that's when we gave them a security plan.
(indistinct conversation) That's why now we have surveillance.
And so we have a, we have a police officer at the door at all times.
Oh, I was coming right by you.
(customers talking) (upbeat music) So, we opened back up July the eighth.
It was a 60-day probation.
I gotta be out of here by 12 o'clock.
So, I got to get all the customers they food, and get us outta here, or it's gonna be a problem.
The probation doesn't allow me to open before 4:30.
FIRSTHAND: Segregation | Collaborative Music Without Genre
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Clip: S8 Ep3 | 1m 14s | Jason Ivy openly talks about his genre-less music and Chicago's segregated music scene. (1m 14s)
FIRSTHAND: Segregation | Preview
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Preview: S8 Ep3 | 30s | In Chicago, residents strive for equity in a city impacted by the effects of segregation. (30s)
FIRSTHAND: Segregation | Trailer
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Preview: S8 Ep3 | 1m 10s | In Chicago, residents strive for equity in a city impacted by the effects of segregation. (1m 10s)
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