Black Journal conducts a live 90-minute special framed around the crucial question of whether the physical and cultural survival of Black people in America is possible. The episode brings together ...
2,085 viewsIn this this archival documentary from PBS Wisconsin, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered on April 5, 1968, the day after his assassination. Combining studio interviews of community and civic lea...
858 viewsLearn about an exciting new collaboration that marries photographs and words to bring Black history to life. Picturing Black History (https://www.picturingblackhistory.org/) is a collaborative project...
746 viewsOnline South African history documentary on the battle of Spion Kop, the bloodiest battle of the Anglo Boer War in South Africa 1899 - 1902, where Winston Churchill reported that up to seven bombs per...
810 views*Content warning: This film contains images of a graphic nature that some viewers may find distressing. Filmmaker: Sanjiev Johal 2020 was the United States on a precipice. COVID-19 claimed the l...
794 viewsNarrated 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...
1,375 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...
1,182 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...
1,282 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 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...
1,570 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...
955 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 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...
1,158 viewsThis show is a broadcast of a presentation made by Dr. T'Shaka to San Francisco State Students Wednesday February 23 2022, at the Nathan Hare Ph.d, Black Power Speaker Series, He expounds on how...
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