Rodney Harris has retired after nearly four decades in retail management. An African American growing up in mostly white Macomb County in the 1960s, he tells all to former classmate and filmmaker Michael Pfaendtner in a short documentary film about one man’s challenges because of his race over the past half century in Southeastern Michigan.

Harris often hears, “Things are a lot better now, don’t you think?” While he’s found success professionally and his children are doing well, it’s his answer that many want to hear.

"A Continuing Series of Small Indignities" airs Wednesday, June 24 at 11:30pm on Detroit Public Television. It’s been screened around the country and shown in the Detroit Free Press Film Festival.

See it broadcast for the first time tonight and find out more about how the film got made in this segment produced by One Detroit’s Bill Kubota.