Our People

[POST-RACIAL] adj.: a theoretical environment where the United States is devoid of racial preference, discrimination, and prejudice; term used to describe a society or time period in which discussions around race and racism have been deemed no longer relevant to current social dynamics, popularized after the election of Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States of America in 2009.

With a black president in office for a second term, a black woman, Oprah Winfrey, dominating media for the past twenty-five years, and millions of white suburban youth embedded in our nation’s African-American driven hip- hop culture, many have come to believe we live in a “post-racial” society.

Despite the popularity of the term, and the fact that legal segregation in America has been outlawed since the mid-1950’s, just beneath the harmonious veneer of a United Nation lies a surprisingly segregated society. This “other America” is marked by strict color lines, deep-seated but rarely expressed racial hostilities that become evident in NFL locker rooms, proceedings like the George Zimmerman case, and churches with the same ethnic makeup they had nearly two hundred years ago.

PROJECT SUMMARY: OUR PEOPLE is a documentary digital television series examining the complex phenomenon of race in America. Through first-person accounts and expert analysis of the geographic, socio-economic and religious factors shaping American culture today, OUR PEOPLE takes an honest look beneath the surface of our politically correct, “post-racial” society: a nation deeply divided.

With candid, on-location interviews designed to provoke honest answers, OUR PEOPLE brings to light the dark recesses of America’s buried racial psyche.

THE NARRATORS: Michael and Bianca Alexander are an interracial couple on a quest to answer the question: “Is America post-racial?”

Michael, a White male from San Francisco, grew up as a minority attending public schools in mostly Black and Asian communities.

Bianca, African-American from Washington, D.C., grew up in a black neighborhood but was the minority in predominantly white schools, and upon graduation from law school, professional work environments.

Since their union in 2002, Michael and Bianca have had to grapple with issues of race in their marriage and in their respective ethnic communities—from beloved family members to strangers on the street. Over the years, thei