Independent Lens

Season 5 Episode 15: A Place of Our Own

Nov 30, -0001 TV-14 1h 8.2

"Black Resort Communities and the African American Dream" Stanley Nelson is a third-generation, upper middle-class African American who spent the past 40 summers in Oak Bluffs, an affluent African-American resort community on Martha's Vineyard. Building on personal stories of summers past, this film explores the tightly-knit world of black professionals who created a refuge to call their own. Full Story