The Old Corruption challenges the accepted version of the history of abolition, that the passive, suffering slaves were freed by benevolent white crusaders, revealing the corruption of the plantations...
659 viewsIn 1939, African American leaders respond to Jim Crow segregation by building a rocket to colonize Mars. The three person crew blasts off, but time travel instead, arriving in present-day America reve...
651 views75% of all enslaved Africans coming to America came in through Beaufort and the sea islands of South Carolina. This beautiful and picturesque tourist destination, by its unique history is the epicente...
1,303 viewsWant to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com This silent 1968 footage documents civil unrest in ...
849 viewsAfter the events of January 6, it became clear many of the key players in extremist groups who organized the attacks were either veterans or active-duty serVICEmen. Since then, the Pentagon has scramb...
851 viewsOn this episode of 'MINORITY REPORTS,' we met up with Tiago, a white freshman at Morehouse College, an HBCU in Atlanta that counts Martin Luther King, Jr. and Spike Lee as alumni. We sat ...
763 viewsJourney through 5 decades of satire with black comedic icons new old from Eddie Murphy, Jamie Foxx, Spike Lee, Mike Epps, The Wayans, David Allen Grier Tommy Davidson to Kenya Barris, Craig Robinson, ...
743 viewsGold, Silver & Slaves looks at how the business of slavery was a case of slave-trading by complicit Africans, fuelled by the greed of African kings. This is the untold story of the ...
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1,083 viewsSudan is one of the world’s last frontiers. Once though this vast desert land was the home of an advanced & mysterious civilisation. An ancient kingdom that was the glory of Africa. ...
705 viewsLittle Rock, Arkansas's, West 9th Street was once a vibrant, African-American business and entertainment district. Taborian Hall is the only remaining historic structure on West 9th Street and st...
804 viewsLORD THING (1970, DeWitt Beall, 16mm., Color, Sound, 52 min.; found in Chicago Film Archives’ DeWitt Beall Collection http://www.chicagofilmarchives.org/collections/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/obje...
1,028 viewsNew 16mm restoration (thanks to a grant from the National Preservation Foundation)! A documentary presentation from the point of view of the VICE Lords, a group of boys on Chicago's West Side,...
935 viewsThe Reconstruction era was a period in American history following the American Civil War (1861–1865); it lasted from 1865 to 1877 & marked a significant chapter in the history of civ...
1,413 viewsThe savings and loan crisis of the 1980s and 1990s (commonly dubbed the S&L crisis) was the failure of about 747 out of the 3,234 savings and loan associations in the United States. Ab...
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