We Need to Talk about Cosby

As Bill Cosby collects accolades for his comedy, breaks barriers for Black stunt performers and takes part in the nation's sexual liberation and civil rights movements in the 1960s, some say he also began using his influence for other things.

During the 70s, Bill Cosby takes a circuitous path to becoming an on-screen educator and moral authority, whether by telling kids to say "no" to drugs or allegedly slipping them to young women, reaching massive acclaim with 1983's special "Himself."

Cosby strikes gold with "The Cosby Show" and leverages his growing power inside the entertainment industry to allegedly commit and conceal a multitude of sins; as the sitcom ends, Cosby evolves from America's Dad into America's Angry Grandpa.

Cosby falls from grace; Hannibal Burress tells a joke, survivors speak out and society begins to listen; Cosby receives trials, incarceration and an overturned verdict, and debate begins about the larger problems his story reveals.