RTD goes to the town of Ferguson, Missouri, USA, to find out more about the issues that fuelled mass protests and unrest after 18-year old Michael Brown was shot dead by a police officer. His tragic d...
2,000 viewsBack when she was San Francisco D.A., U.S. Senator Kamala Harris, now a presidential contender and a self-described "progressive prosecutor," cost the city of San Fra...
2,109 viewsThe history before slavery 101.edited collaboration of videos teaching history before slavery. Learn about when Black people ruled of Egypt and all of Africa. Learn about the kings and queens of Afric...
2,084 viewsNelson Mandela is a shining example of what one man can do to change the world. Born into an oppressive regime, he fought to overcome prejudice and hate to unify a nation. Nelson Mandela's dedica...
1,736 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...
1,721 viewsGangsta rap or gangster rap is a subgenre of hip hop music with themes and lyrics that generally emphasize the "gangsta" lifestyle. The genre evolved from hardcore hip hop in...
2,014 viewsJazz is a 2001 television documentary miniseries, directed by Ken Burns. It was broadcast on PBS in 2001 and was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Non-Fiction Series (Informational). Its chr...
2,101 viewsTenants of a Harlem boarding house put on a show to save their home. Director:Josh Binney Writer: Hal Seeger Stars: Moms Mabley, Dusty Fletcher, Marcellus Wilson Genres: Classics, Musical @C...
1,722 viewsBlack Brigade (1970) - Full Length Classic Movie A unit of African American soldiers with a white commander is tasked with taking out an important bridge in World War II . This movie is also known a...
1,632 viewsJames Earl Jones stars as Jack Johnson the first African American Heavyweight Champion of the world.
1,624 viewsThe Old Corruption challenges the accepted version of the history of abolition, that the passive, suffering slaves were freed by benevolent white crusaders, revealing the corruption of the plantations...
1,602 viewsFrom Internet Archives: 0:12:13 Delta Rhythm Boys in Take the 'A' Train (1941). 0:14:46 Fats Waller in Your Feet's Too Big (1941). 0:17:45 Count Basie Orchestra in "...
2,042 viewsNOTE: "Fair Use" | Copyright disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purpos...
1,581 viewsMandy Jenkins, an African American cook for a wealthy white family in Birmingham, Alabama, discovers her husband Cornell is having an affair with Eloise Jackson. When she confronts her husband and Elo...
1,586 viewsSlavery is officially banned internationally by all countries, yet despite this, in the world today there are more slaves now than ever before. In the four hundred years of the slave trade around 13 m...
1,635 viewsIn 1939, African American leaders respond to Jim Crow segregation by building a rocket to colonize Mars. The three person crew blasts off, but time travel instead, arriving in present-day America reve...
1,673 viewsOn Aug. 22, the Voice of America and Norfolk State University hosted an international town hall to discuss the 400th anniversary of the first Africans' landing in North America. Originally publi...
1,440 viewsThe Most Dangerous Female Mobsters In History From smuggling to killing, Casinos to illegal substances, the Mafia has done it all. And for the most part, Men have been at the centre of the discu...
1,789 viewsThe hidden history of an American coup. Help our reporting on hidden histories. Submit a story idea here: http://bit.ly/2RhjxMy Correction at 7:23: Cynthia's ancestors lived in Wilmington, ...
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