Discovered Truth: A Health Care Journey discusses black barriers to healthcare due to racism, distrust, and slavery and how that effects racial health disparities now. Historically the African Amer...
793 viewsTo commemorate 45 years since the passing of civil and human rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer, Monica Land, Mrs. Hamer’s great-niece and executive producer of FANNIE LOU HAMER’S AMER...
1,181 viewsFor the family of Fannie Lou Hamer, she was a woman of power and presence as a civil and human rights activist. But to Jacqueline Hamer Flakes, Monica Land, and Jimmy Lee Lacey, she was also so much m...
1,281 viewsThis film series highlights the contributions of African Americans to their communities and the nation. Events and achievements highlighted in this film were: recent political appointments of African ...
998 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...
1,032 viewsAn explanation about why Africans Americans migrated from the South to Northern cities during the early part of the 20th century and it's cause and effect. The First Great Migration, sometimes...
1,569 viewsTALKING black in AMERICA follows the unique circumstances of the descendants of American slaves and their incredible impact on American life and language. Speech varieties from the African American co...
1,129 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...
1,416 viewsBlaxploitation or blacksploitation is an ethnic subgenre of the exploitation film, emerging in the United States during the early 1970s. Blaxploitation films were originally made specifically for a...
1,043 viewsThere are few Chicago historical figures whose life and work speak to the current moment more than Ida B. Wells, the 19th century investigative journalist, civil rights leader, and passionate suffragi...
954 viewsThe U.S. never fulfilled its promise of "40 acres and a mule" to formerly enslaved people. If America granted reparations today, what would they look like, and who wo...
1,088 viewshttps://afrikanworld.info/collections/amos-wilson-books
1,651 viewsMilton Freidman, in the fourth segment of the series, shows why he believes government-run welfare programs do not help the people they are intended to help or achieve the ends they are intended to ac...
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