- Tonight, February 13, 2012, at 9pm EST PBS will air Director <strong><a href="http://www.blackenterprise.com/2012/02/13/sam-pollard-discusses-slavery-by-another-name/">Sam Pollard</a></strong>'s gripping documentary, <em><strong><a href="http://www.slaverybyanothername.com/" target="_blank">Slavery By Another Name</a></strong></em>. Based on journalist Douglas Blackmon's Pulitzer Prize-winning book of the same name and narrated by actor <strong>Laurence Fishburne</strong>, the film takes a hard look at the paralleles between slavery and the prison system. Featuring intimate interviews with historians and descendants of slaves, as well as vivid reenactments, <em>Slavery By Another Name</em> makes for a powerful body of work by the longtime <strong>Spike Lee</strong> collaborator. <strong><a href="http://www.blackenterprise.com/2012/02/13/sam-pollard-discusses-slavery-by-another-name/">Click here</a></strong> to read Pollard's full interview with <strong>BlackEnterprise.com</strong> and review exclusive images from the doc on the following pages.
- Archival photo of Black convicts in prison stripes
Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress
- Prison official overseeing prison work detail
Image courtesy of the Library of Congress
- Archive photo of young Black convicts in prison barracks
Image courtesy of Getty
- Prisoner being disciplined by being hog tied to a pickaxe in the middle of prison grounds
Photo courtesy of Harry Ransom Center University of Texas at Austin
- Archival photo of African American prisoner on downtime during manual labor detail
Image courtesy of the Library of Congress
- Pollard (far left) directs a scene from Slavery By Another Name
- A reenactment scene from Slavery By Another name of convicts being escorted through the swamp
- Director Sam Pollard on set of Slavery By Another Name
- Acclaimed actor Laurence Fishburne lends his powerful voice as narrator of Slavery By Another Name, which airs February 13, 2012 on PBS

















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