Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMnXkd0_RZ8 Part 2: https://youtu.be/--Q_GUnXFts Part 2 of my Jeff Fort story was going to be about Fort and other El Rukn becoming the first American citizen...
768 viewsDarrell Davis was just 18 when he was sent to prison, serving a total of 25 years behind bars. Davis converted to Islam while in jail, taking on the name “Sadiq”, or truthful, as part of an attemp...
571 viewsAgainst the backdrop of unprecedented gun violence, Reggie Yates travels to chicago to investigate gun crime in President Obama's adopted hometown. In 2015, there were 468 murders, and the murde...
529 viewsThis episode of chicago Stories traces the birth and growth of gospel music in chicago in the 1930s. The story follows "The Father of Gospel", Thomas A. Dorsey, who w...
657 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...
814 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,...
760 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...
772 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...
939 viewsThis video explains the tragic events of the Red Summer in 1919. During the Red Summer of 1919 violence against Black people broke out across the country, more than three dozen racial riots took p...
682 viewsIn 1919, chicago exploded in a firestorm of racial violence. In this colloquium, Prof. David Bates recounts the ways that chicago’s black and white workers responded to those eight bloody days. This...
745 viewsIn May 2004, after receiving an award at the celebration of the 50th Anniversary commemoration of the Brown v. Board of Education ruling—a ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court that outlawed school racia...
880 viewsWhat was it like being black in the 1980s? Black life in the 1980s was at times beautiful, at times scary, and always complicated. The rise of black celebrity and culture did not translate into a ris...
1,045 viewsThis documentary chronicles White Americans reflecting on white racial identity and racism. Areas the video explores include; the question of how people of European descent were transformed into &am...
674 viewsThe decades after the civil war saw Black Americans slowly gain more economic and political power in some parts of the country. Some bought land, started businesses and built schools. But in many plac...
1,003 viewsIS THE BLACK CHURCH DEAD? A ROUNDTABLE ON THE FUTURE OF BLACK CHURCHES During the first few months of 2010 a new, yet familiar, debate broke out about the role of black churches in the United State...
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