Like It Is
Film

Like It Is (c. 1970)

Thursday, October 25, NMAAHC
Runtime: 20 min

This episode of Like It Is, a long-running morning current affairs television program on ABC hosted by Gil Noble and produced by Charles Hobson, shows a documentary about Newark, New Jersey narrated by the late poet, Amiri Baraka.

Property of Gil Noble’s Like It Is ™

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