My Past Is My Own

Justin Cook (Phill Lewis) and his sister Kerry (Allison Dean) are two African American teenagers living in a middle-class New Jersey household in the late 1980s. The Cook family is visited by their distant cousin, psychologist Mariah Johnston (Whoopi Goldberg). A contemporary of Justin and Kerry's parents, Mariah is about to receive an award for her years of community work, particularly in the area of Civil and political rights. Having been born after the Civil Rights Movement, Justin and Kerry never experienced Jim Crow laws Racial segregation in the United States, and the two fail to appreciate the stories about the era that Mariah and their parents recount at dinner.

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  • TheTVDB.com Movie ID 67899
  • Status Released
  • Released Worldwide January 24, 1989
  • Runtime 60 minutes
  • Original Country United States of America
  • Original Language English
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