Watch the entire original broadcast of one of the most celebrated documentaries of all time, 1960's Harvest of Shame in which Edward R. Murrow exposed the plight of America's farm workers.
There 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...
"The Negro middle class, torn between white goals and black needs..." Examined by William Greaves and William Branch in a 90-minute NET Produced episode and enlists the narra...
Shahrazad Ali (born April 27, 1954, in Atlanta, Georgia, US), raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, is an author of several books, including a paperback called The Blackman's Guide to Understanding the ...
Maafa21: Black Genocide in 21st Century America, is a documentary film produced by Life Dynamics Inc. that reveals how eugenics and population control has systematically been used to reduce Black b...
One in this series of irregularly scheduled in-depth reports. This program focuses on the lives of nine families living in a dilapidated tenement on Chicago's south . One in this series of irr...
Part ten of a 15-part series of documentaries produced by the American Broadcasting Company on the 20th century and the rise of the United States as a superpower.
The first few years of the 1960s p...
The 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...
The 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 ...
Blaxploitation 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 Blaxploitation films were originally made specifically for an u...
Pamela Grier is an American actress. Grier became known in the early 1970s for starring in a string of women in prison and blaxploitation films such as The Big Bird Cage (1972), Coffy (1973), Foxy Bro...
