Eyes on the Prize
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Oct 14, 2026
LaTosha BrownGUEST
Well, the first thing I did right was the day I started to fight.
LaTosha BrownGUEST
Keep your eyes on the prize and hold on.
Al LetsonHOST
Hold on.
LaTosha BrownGUEST
I don't remember a time that I didn't love people.
LaTosha BrownGUEST
And I remember a man named Reverend C.T. Vivian.
LaTosha BrownGUEST
Some people may know who was a icon in the civil rights movement.
LaTosha BrownGUEST
If people go and watch Eyes on the Prize, the song, the clip of the song that I just was singing, he was in Selma, Alabama, and he challenged power and authority in his role as a minister and as one of the lieutenants with Dr.
LaTosha BrownGUEST
King.
Geeta GandbhirGUEST
Like, he, you know, he cut Wild Style.
Geeta GandbhirGUEST
He cut, he worked on Eyes on the Prize.
Geeta GandbhirGUEST
He did so much, you know? He's, he's such a legend.
Geeta GandbhirGUEST
So Sam first introduced me to doc, and...
Lee CampGUEST
I grew up in Alabama.
Lee CampGUEST
And the professor in the Christian ethics class showed us a part of the Eyes on the Prize video series that was about the history of the civil rights movement in America.
Lee CampGUEST
And they were telling the story about one of the interstate bus trips that came down through Alabama.
Lee CampGUEST
And one of those was firebombed.
Andrew FrischmanHOST
Some days, I felt like things were crashing into the guardrails.
Andrew FrischmanHOST
Like one time, it was around MLK Day in January, and I put on an episode of Eyes on the Prize.
Andrew FrischmanHOST
It's a documentary about the civil rights movement in the US.
Andrew FrischmanHOST
I had remembered watching it with my parents, and I hoped it would start a conversation in the advisory about racism and efforts to end inequality.
Marcia ChatelainGUEST
It's such a beautiful kind of like image.
Marcia ChatelainGUEST
And yesterday I was teaching class and we were watching the Eyes on the Prize documentary.
Marcia ChatelainGUEST
And there was an old interview from the 80s with Ralph Abernathy, who was the kind of chief of staff for Martin Luther King Jr.
Marcia ChatelainGUEST
And he talked about the importance of that song to people during the Montgomery bus boycott.
Yoruba RichenGUEST
It was really when I was watching those documentaries growing up.
Yoruba RichenGUEST
I remember watching Eyes on the Prize, which was on PBS.
Yoruba RichenGUEST
and just being amazed at all this history that was being told, you know, many by the people who were a part of it, and in a way that was compelling, that was interesting, that was emotional.
Yoruba RichenGUEST
And then I also remember watching $2 and a Dream, Stanley Nelson's film about Madam C.J. Walker, who was the first woman millionaire.
Bryan GreeneGUEST
this was in the late 80s, I was taking this course and showing stuff up on the screen from the 60s.
Bryan GreeneGUEST
And Eyes on the Prize had just come out, which was really transformative for me.
Bryan GreeneGUEST
And so it really just helped me put the dots together in my life and to sort of connect my parents' experiences.
Bryan GreeneGUEST
Because on one hand, when you're a young person, you sort of dismiss what your parents say anyhow.