Narrated by Blair Underwood, Olympic Pride, American Prejudice is set in the strained and turbulent atmosphere of a racially divided 1930's America, torn between boycotting Hitler's Olympics...
1,380 viewsThe story of black Americans in the military is a remarkable and inspiring history, often in contrast to the skewed accounts many have been led to believe. See more in this special. #History S...
692 viewsHow pressure to increase profits and uneven government support are widening the divide between rich and poor hospitals, endangering care for low-income populations. With NPR and the Investigative Repo...
805 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...
811 viewsDiscovered 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 viewsPresident Johnson's Special Message to the Congress, The American Promise. March 15, 1965. Index terms: Speeches; Congress; LBJ Library video MP506 donated by CBS. For research purposes onl...
724 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...
1,033 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...
1,419 viewsThe American dream is the main reason why, for centuries the United States of America has been the number one destination for generations of immigrants. During all these years each immigrant, hitting ...
1,535 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 Blaxploitation films were originally made specifically for a...
1,044 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...
902 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...
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