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Topic: Archie Bunker

Television writer and producer Norman Lear, the subject of an "American Masters" documentary that will air on PBS in 2016, poses for a portrait during the 2015 Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour at the Beverly Hilton on Saturday, Aug. 1, 2015, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP) (Chris Pizzello/invision/ap)

Norman Lear snubs Trump

Alessandra Maldonado

Janet Upadhye

Archie helped race relations?

Christina von Hodenberg
(Reuters/Phil McCarten)

Lear: They just wanted my cash

Norman Lear
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Fox Business: "Get a job!"

Elias Isquith
Sally Field in "Norma Rae"

Why white men hate unions

Edward McClelland
Carrol O'Connor; Ellen Barkin (NBC/Timothy White/Salon)

Our female Archie Bunker

Ronda Racha Penrice
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